THE 'Son of Concorde' XB-1 jet is set to take off on its inaugural supersonic flight today, where it will break the sound barrier for the first time. Bosses at Colorado-based Boom Technology ...
Last week, American company Boom Supersonic ... Concorde’s expensive, “gas guzzling” nature was a complaint levelled against it for most of its lifetime. A catastrophic 1973 Paris air show ...
It’s now almost 55 years since the 002 prototype for Concorde first flew at Mach 1 on March 25, 1970, and more than 21 years since commercial supersonic travel ended with the Anglo-French ...
Almost 22 years after Concorde made its final commercial flights, a prototype passenger jet is attempting to break the sound barrier – and its first supersonic test flight takes off today (28 ...
A future for supersonic travel relies on solving some or all of the issues Concorde faced. NASA and Lockheed Martin's Quesst project aims to show sonic boom can be dissipated to manageable levels.