I went on board two Concordes, including the first prototype, at Paris's air and space museum. Concorde, retired in 2003 due to costs and a crash, flew at more than twice the speed of sound. Boom ...

For most travelers, the loud, window-rattling boom of a supersonic jet is something you hear about in documentaries rather than experience in real life. Public noise restrictions have kept passenger ...

Decades after Concorde's retirement, the appeal of traveling over an ocean faster than the speed of sound remains strong. Engineers have changed the problem over the past 50 years: how can breaking ...

Now here’s one for the mantelpiece. A newly released image shows the sound barrier being broken on February 10 as America’s first civil supersonic jet completed its second flight at speeds exceeding ...

An experimental supersonic aircraft called the X-59 took to the skies for the first time in October. The plane lifted off ...

CC0 Usage Conditions ApplyClick for more information. Fifty years after the Concorde first flew, a new era of innovation and entrepreneurial ideas seeks to make supersonic flight practical and ...

President Donald Trump has ordered the Federal Aviation Administration to end the 52-year ban on supersonic flights in the United States, which will clear the way for commercial passenger aircraft to ...

President Trump signed an executive order Friday that could clear the skies for Boom Supersonic’s Overture, the sleek craft being designed and tested at Centennial Airport that could become the ...

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Stephen has degrees in science (Physics major) and arts (English Literature and the History and Philosophy of Science), as well as a Graduate Diploma in Science Communication. Stephen has degrees in ...

Fifty years after the Concorde first flew, a new era of innovation and entrepreneurial ideas seeks to make supersonic flight practical and sustainable. Flying passengers at twice the speed of sound, ...