US aerospace firm wants to accept passengers by the end of 2029. But what was Concorde, its famous supersonic plane ...

Boom hopes its breakthrough will allow supersonic flights over land, making US coast-to-coast flights 90 minutes faster.

SPEEDY flights that blast off faster than the speed of sound look set to return to skies as a US company reveals huge progress on a new Concorde-like service. Boom’s XB-1 jet, dubbed the ...

Concorde made the fastest transatlantic commercial flight from New York to London in 2 hours and 52 minutes. But the era of Concordes has passed and now such a trip takes about 7-8 hours. Can we ever ...

The XB-1 demonstrator has broken the speed of sound, hitting Mach 1.1. It is the first civil supersonic aircraft in US history and the first to do so since Concorde was retired in 2003. That was an ...

Tuesday’s XB-1 flight marks the first human-piloted civil supersonic flight since Concorde’s retirement more than 20 years ...

A supersonic jet built by US company Boom has broken the sound barrier for the first time since the Concorde during a test flight.

The Concorde was also a very loud plane at takeoff, since it needed a lot of thrust to leave the ground. NASA and Lockheed Martin’s Quesst project aims to show sonic boom can be dissipated to ...

Boom Supersonic is building the closet thing we have to the next Concorde. In this video, I'm going to show you the XB-1 test ...

Colorado company Boom Supersonic plans to break the sound barrier with its test plane XB-1 during a test flight this morning, with the flight due to be streamed live online ...

A passenger could speed from Los Angeles to New York City in just two and a half hours. (Seats on the 1,300 mph Concorde plane, retired in 2003, were too expensive for most passengers, at some five ...

Compared to a Boeing 747, the delta-wing Concorde guzzled four times as much fuel and carried only one-fifth as many ...