But while the successful test flight of XB-1 shows that supersonic flight without sonic booms is technically feasible, the ...

A closer look at how Sir Richard Branson tried and failed to bring supersonic capabilities to the Virgin Atlantic fleet.

Air France's streamlined white Concorde swooped into a Paris airport on its final commercial flight home, an emotional end to years of supersonic travel between New York and Paris. The plane ...

The final Concorde to land was the celebrity-packed New York flight which touched down on the north runway at 4.05pm. It was proceeded by a Concorde from Edinburgh with competition winners on ...

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’s XB-1 aircraft climbed ...

A newly released image shows the sound barrier being broken on February 10 as Boom Supersonic’s XB-1, America’s first civil ...

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

Boom Supersonic confirmed on Monday that the “Son of Concorde” once again flew faster than the speed of sound, marking its second and final supersonic test flight. Boom plans to focus on ...

The test flight might have come "years later than ... the 9/11 attacks the following year proved to be "the final straw" for Concorde, which was officially retired. The scaled-down prototype ...