China’s Comac is aiming to redefine supersonic travel with its C949 airliner, a 1.6-Mach design promising greater range and ...

Concorde's fuel guzzling ways made it an expensive ... gradually made it difficult for British Airways and Air France to fly ...

The Concorde also flew from Gbadolite in Zaire to Europe. The plane was often hired by Mobutu Se Seseko to fly him and his ...

NASA has snapped a stunning image of a supersonic plane breaking the sound barrier – as its creators boast that there was “no audible sonic boom”. The Boom Supersonic XB-1 – dubbed a ...

Boom Supersonic, aka Concorde 2.0, is aiming to fly passengers from 2030. CEO Blake Scholl shares his plans with ...

Concorde's air intake system, developed 40 years ago, is still leading-edge technology today. Flying at Mach 2—roughly 1,350 miles per hour—wind friction quickly raises the surface temperature ...

Aviation fans around the world are marking the 50th anniversary of Concorde’s maiden flight. The first Concorde prototype took off from Toulouse in the south of France on March 2 1969 ...

Concorde entered service in 1976 and continued flying for the next 27 years until it was retired in 2003. The plane could reach Mach 2 and cross the Atlantic in three and a half hours. British ...

A US aerospace company has announced major progress on its Concorde-like service, a sleek new XB-1 jet. Boom Supersonic confirmed on Monday that the “Son of Concorde” once again flew faster ...

Sir Richard Branson has stepped up his battle to keep Concorde flying by raising his airline's offer to British Airways to £1 million a plane. The Virgin Atlantic chairman is prepared to pay £5 ...

Concorde has been cleared to fly again after an announcement that its certificate of airworthiness is to be returned, British Airways said today. The Civil Aviation Authority and its French ...

It set tests that Concorde could surely never pass: would it be able to take off from JFK, climb fast enough and turn quickly enough to avoid flying over residential areas? You know the answer – in ...