A supersonic jet nicknamed the 'Son of the Concorde' has officially traveled faster than the speed of sound for the first time. The XB-1 demonstrator aircraft took off from the Mojave Air & Space ...

Between 1976, when Concorde began flights to the United States, and 2003, when the aircraft was retired, you may have been fortunate enough, as I was once, to see Concorde take off. I noticed it ...

NASA has snapped a stunning image of a supersonic plane breaking the sound barrier ... fell after an Air France Concorde crashed just minutes after taking off from Paris in July 2000.

Last month, the white aircraft made history as the first independently developed jet to break the sound barrier ... an Air France Concorde in July 2000, just minutes after take-off from Paris.

Today, the Aérospatiale/BAC Concorde, the turbojet-powered supersonic passenger airliner icon, first flew in 1969.

Boom Supersonic plans to break the sound barrier during a test flight ... first supersonic passenger jet since the British-French Concorde, which was retired in 2003. "It will still be a few ...

American company Boom Supersonic just broke the sound barrier with a civilian plane. What exactly is supersonic travel, and when can we expect it?

SPEEDY flights that blast off faster than the speed of sound look set to return to skies as a US company reveals huge progress on a new Concorde-like service. Boom's XB-1 jet, dubbed the "Son of ...

Scholl said it makes use of technology that wasn't available in the era of Concorde, which began commercial service in 1976. "Boomless Cruise requires engines powerful enough to break the sound ...