And then there was the flying machine that brought Scholl up short: a British Airways supersonic Concorde, which went into commercial service in 1976 and was permanently mothballed in 2003.

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Boom Supersonic is one step closer to launching the spiritual heir to the Concorde. The US firm’s XB-1 prototype reached a transonic speed of Mach 0.95 during Test Flight 11 on January 10 ...

Commercial supersonic flight sped closer to returning as the Boom Supersonic XB-1 prototype reached a transonic speed of Mach 0.95 during Test Flight 11 on January 10, 2025, in the skies over the ...

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 ...

The team at Boom Supersonic are determining whether a 12 th test flight of its XB-1 demonstrator is needed before undertaking its first attempt at breaking the speed barrier. On January 10, 2025, XB-1 ...

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 ...

If you buy through a BGR link, we may earn an affiliate commission, helping support our expert product labs. For the first time since the Concorde was retired in 2003, the dream of supersonic ...

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 ...

You have to reorient your brain to embrace the instrument’s simplicity. There are a series of chord names associated with buttons on the side of the instrument’s neck. Holding one of these whi ...