Similar to a delta wing, the Soviet-developed Tu-144 incorporated special retractable foreplanes (canards) to improve lift ...

Virgin Galactic’s private jet represents a very bold step toward making supersonic travel a reality for an elite few. Unlike ...

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

NASA has snapped a stunning image of a supersonic plane breaking the sound barrier – as its creators boast that there was “no audible sonic boom”. The Boom Supersonic XB-1 – dubbed a ...

Celebrities travelling on the last passenger Concorde flight told today of their sadness that the supersonic aircraft was ceasing commercial operation. Ms Bussell, who is five months' pregnant ...

Even some civilian aircraft have done it: the Concorde, a supersonic passenger jet developed in the 1960s by the United Kingdom and France, made regular supersonic flights across the Atlantic Ocean, ...

Supersonic aircraft tend to fly at high altitudes (Concorde flew at 60,000ft (18km) rather than the 40,000ft (12km) typical for most passenger jets) to take advantage of lower turbulence levels.