NASA recently unveiled its supersonic X-59 aircraft, unofficially dubbed 'Son of Concorde,' which is being developed by Lockheed Martin at a cost of $247.5 million and is capable of flying at a ...

A Chinese firm says it expects to fly a supersonic prototype in the second half of this year, with the goal of eventually flying a more advanced hypersonic commercial jet by 2030 at Mach 5 (3,836 ...

CINCINNATI (WKRC) - Ever since the Concorde retired in 2003 after only 27 years of flying, supersonic commercial flights have seemingly been a pipe dream, but new developments in science in ...

The Concorde fleet operated for over a quarter century, yet just 14 of the awe-inspiring supersonic passenger ... and he wrote the book on it: Flying Concorde (Motorbooks International, 2002).

Commercial supersonic flight sped closer to returning ... the fuselage and wings greater than what it would experience when flying supersonic at Mach 1.1. In short, XB-1 pushed what was once ...

For supersonic flight, the nose was hydraulically lifted, streamlining the plane's shape and allowing it to efficiently pierce the air. It's a classic ... technology today. Flying at Mach 2 ...

SON of Concorde' XB-1 jet is "on track" to break the sound barrier in early 2025, makers of the supersonic plane have announced. In its first major update of the year, bosses at Colorado-based ...

Boom's XB-1 demonstrator will test technology for its planned Overture supersonic commercial airliner ... but British Airways was keen to keep the aircraft flying. "One reason Airbus, which ...

A new supersonic jet could take passengers from ... The jet was named the ‘somersault cloud’ used in the classic Chinese novel ‘Journey to the West’. So far tests have shown the jet ...

Chuck Yeager - who was inducted into the National Aviation Hall of Fame in 1973 - kept flying in his later years It was a feat of considerable courage, as nobody was certain at the time whether an ...