The Concorde was discontinued soon after a catastrophic ... Boom Supersonic’s XB-1 jet broke the sound barrier for the first ...

A 'son of Concorde' that could get passengers from ... Captured in a breathtaking photo, Boom Supersonic's XB-1 jets past the ...

Steve Varsano, an aviation entrepreneur, has spoken about the aircraft and why it was eventually discontinued.

Aircraft maker Bombardier says it is close to finalizing assembly of the first Global 8000 business jet, the fastest civilian ...

A newly released image shows the sound barrier being broken on February 10 ... It’s now almost 55 years since the 002 prototype for Concorde first flew at Mach 1 on March 25, 1970, and more ...

Not many have heard of Bombardier, a business jet manufacturer headquartered in Montreal. The company trails the likes of ...

Concorde enabled passenger air travel faster than the speed of sound.The story of the renowned jet starts with the race to break the sound barrier in the 1940s and continues with the Anglo-French ...

Concorde's retirement in 2003 brought the ... made the aircraft the first privately developed jet to break the sound barrier—Mach 1, or about 767 mph. Overture will have a cruise speed of ...

Last month, the XB-1 broke the sound barrier over the Mojave Desert. The event positions Boom Supersonic to produce the first supersonic airliner since the Concorde was grounded in 2003.

Concorde's first, non-stop transatlantic flight ... Boom Supersonic reports. It broke the sound barrier three times without once generating a sonic boom that reached the ground.

Examines the bittersweet destiny of the Concorde, one of the only commercial aircraft in history to break the sound barrier, through interviews with former pilots, engineers, archival materials ...