A number of companies worldwide have been working on the design and development of supersonic business jets (SSBJ). These jets are intended to tran ...

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Convair isn't the world's biggest aircraft maker, but its 990 Coronado was one of the fastest planes of the 1960s. Why was ...

A "son of Concorde" aircraft that may one day fly from New York to London in 1.5 hours has reached supersonic speeds. An ...

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

A hub of innovation and creativity, the city also has a notably Spanish influence and a thriving student community ...

Sonic booms have long been a barrier to overland supersonic flights. The Concorde was banned from virtually every country in the world because of the thundering noise. Only the US, Great Britain, and ...

The US government agency captured the breaking of the sound barrier in a photo. "The invisible has become visible" thanks to ...

In order to capture the Schlieren images ... 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 ...

In January, XB-1 became the first independently developed jet to fly faster than the ... conducted by NASA in efforts to bring supersonic commercial travel to the public. On February 10, Boom ...