An aircraft developed by Boom Supersonic has become the first independently funded jet to break the sound barrier ...

NASA is looking at developing a craft with a softer boom, and Boeing is also working on a prototype for supersonic commercial travel. Any new such service will likely face the same hurdles as Concorde ...

If NASA’s bet on its newest X-plane pays off, the long-nosed aircraft could revolutionize commercial aviation. That is, if ...

New 'super-Earth' found that could host alien life - and it's six times bigger than ours Supersonic jet nicknamed 'Son of Concorde' breaks ... rate can be brought down significantly with early ...

He’d much rather relay the details of the times he spent in the cockpit, alongside the handful of Concorde captains, staring out of the heat-resistant visor and over the trademark droop nose on ...

if we have faster airplanes, we don’t need as many.” Like Concorde, the XB-1 and Overture both have a long nose and a high angle of attack for takeoff and landing, which interrupts the pilots ...

The return of supersonic travel has been remarkably slow for something faster than the speed of sound, but a landmark moment is set to happen on.

The American-built civil supersonic jet is made from carbon fibre, and unlike Concorde’s droop nose, pilots will use an “augmented reality vision system” to see past its long nose for ...