The pilot recalls Concorde’s story, the supersonic plane that revolutionized commercial aviation for more than three decades.
The Bombardier Global 8000 is the fastest civil jet since Concorde, combining Mach 0.95 speed, 8,000-nm range, and ...
NASA’s $247 million supersonic jet dubbed the “Son of Concorde” has broken the sound barrier for the first time after it zoomed at more than 700mph in a test flight. It’s ...
The rebirth of commercial supersonic flight has kind of, sort of come to pass as Dawn Aerospace announces that its 16-ft (4.8-m) Mk-II Aurora rocket-powered aircraft broke the sound barrier with a ...
'You could be in Sydney, Australia in three hours.' ...
Aided by a quartet of Rolls-Royce Olympus 593 engines, the Concorde, the world's only commercially successful supersonic passenger plane, was capable of flying at speeds up to 1,354 mph (2,179 kph).
As 25 July marks the 20th anniversary of Concorde's fatal crash, we look back on the highlights – and lowlights – of the famed supersonic jet. 5 November 1956 The Supersonic Transport Aircraft ...
A plane built by Nasa has broken the sound barrier without producing a sonic boom, bringing civilian supersonic flights a ...
Conventional commercial flights typically take around seven to eight hours to complete the same journey. On Friday June 5 the ...