The scaled-down prototype, nicknamed the "Baby Boom", broke the sound barrier for the first time during a test flight over the Mojave Desert in California in late January. The small jet, officially ...

Venus Aerospace is building a hypersonic aircraft that can carry about a dozen passengers, traveling at Mach 9, nine times the speed of sound. The Stargazer, ...

Specifically, with a supersonic jet capable of flying at Mach 3. This is a big deal because it is roughly double the speed on the Concorde ... concept of a high-speed aircraft, which we envision ...

The Atlanta-based company is on a mission to develop commercial passenger aircrafts that move at hypersonic speeds.

He also holds the record for the most number of flights as a supersonic ... experiences of Concorde, including the celebrities and royalty he met, as well as the history of the aircraft and ...

We need to be moving now to around Mach 2 or faster and ... innovative team can design, build and fly a supersonic aircraft. More than 20 years since the last flight of Concorde – can Boom bring back ...

Despite all these technological advances, a supersonic aircraft still cannot beat physics. Shock waves, and their associated drag, will still exist. So, a single supersonic aircraft will still produce ...

Today, the Aérospatiale/BAC Concorde, the turbojet-powered supersonic passenger airliner icon, first flew in 1969.