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

NASA and Boom Supersonic capture a stunning image of the XB-1 aircraft breaking the sound barrier using the Sun as a backdrop ...

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

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

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 ...

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

"We didn't invent anything," Scholl said. "Concorde proved you can fly a supersonic airplane with passengers on it half a century ago. The job of the Overture is to do it economically." An ...

Boom is working to address sonic booms, which was part of the reason the original Concorde was forced to stop flying. But there were a plethora of reasons which forced the French-British venture ...

Concorde - which ceased flying in 2003 - made a thunderous noise when flying faster than Mach 1. This meant it was limited to flying faster than the speed of sound over sea with only two routes ...

Sir Richard Branson has stepped up his battle to keep Concorde flying by raising his airline's offer to British Airways to £1 million a plane. The Virgin Atlantic chairman is prepared to pay £5 ...