Virgin Galactic, a brand of Sir Richard Branson famous for its low-earth orbit rocket ship, has decided to throw its hat into the aviation market place. Specifically, with a supersonic jet capable of ...

American company Boom Supersonic just broke the sound barrier with a civilian plane. What exactly is supersonic travel, and ...

Despite these setbacks, the dream of supersonic travel never faded. The Concorde was a marvel, flying at Mach 2 from 1976 until its retirement in 2003. However, with ticket prices at $20,000 ...

A prototype passenger jet has surpassed the speed of sound in a test flight, reviving the prospect of supersonic travel. Heralded as a "new Concorde," Boom Supersonic's XB-1 is the first privately ...

“There we are!" said Mike Bannister. "XB-1 is supersonic, faster than the speed of sound.” Bannister, a former pilot of the Concorde supersonic plane, made the call as the experimental XB-1 ...

is developing the world’s first supersonic passenger aircraft since the demise of Concorde. While the full-size aircraft is still a few years away, the company has reached a milestone in the ...

The American-built civil supersonic jet is made from carbon fibre, and unlike Concorde’s droop nose, pilots use an “augmented reality vision system” to see past its long nose for takeoff and ...

Almost 22 years after Concorde made its final commercial flights, a prototype passenger jet has broken the sound barrier during a supersonic test flight. Boom Supersonic founder and CEO Blake ...

Boom Supersonic's XB-1 test jet broke the sound barrier for the ... Overture could be less costly than the Concorde Overture could revive the Concorde era and connect places like New York and London ...

It’s now almost 55 years since the 002 prototype for Concorde first flew at Mach 1 on March 25, 1970, and more than 21 years since commercial supersonic travel ended with the Anglo-French ...

Denver-based Boom Technology's XB-1 demonstrator plane hit Mach 1.122 — 750 mph. It's the first independently developed supersonic jet. The... A private company aiming to build the first ...