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 ...

A US company's prototype jet has broken the sound barrier in a demonstration it hopes will pave the way for a successor to the Concorde. Boom Supersonic's XB-1 is the first civilian aircraft to ...

CHINA is developing a hypersonic passenger jet capable of reaching speeds a whopping six times faster than the Concorde. An impressive prototype for the “Nanqiang No 1” has shown the aircraft is set ...

For a fleeting 30 years during the 20th century, supersonic commercial air travel was a reality. But on October 24, 2003, that era came to an abrupt end. That day, British Airways operated its last ...

This is one fast baby boomer! Thirteen years after the venerable Concorde was retired, Richard Branson has unveiled a prototype for a supersonic passenger jet that is hoped will whisk passengers from ...

Boom, an aerospace startup that hopes to usher in a new age of affordable supersonic civilian air travel, has unveiled the first scale prototype of the Boom Passenger Jet. Dubbed the XB-1 or "Baby ...