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.

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, ...

That made the 990 Coronado one of the fastest passenger jets of its time, and it was only overshadowed when the Concorde arrived. While Convair built one of the fastest airliners of its time ...

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 ...

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

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.

They're responsible for the first supersonic fighter jet in the world and eventually getting the Concorde passenger plane across the Atlantic in record time. The earliest turbojets were ...