NASA’S “Son of Concorde” jet that could fly from the UK to New York in four hours has smashed through the sound barrier without triggering the usual sonic boom. The experimental ...

A ‘son of Concorde’ that could fly from London to New York in under four hours has passed a milestone test. NASA’s X-59 quiet supersonic research aircraft flew with its ‘wheels-up’ for the first time ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The return of supersonic travel has been remarkably slow for something faster than the speed of sound, but a major milestone was ...

Conventional commercial flights typically take around seven to eight hours to complete the same journey. On Friday June 5 the needle-nosed X-59 reached a speed of nearly Mach 1.1 (713mph) while ...

Almost 22 years after Concorde made its final commercial flights, a prototype passenger jet has broken the sound barrier during a supersonic test flight. Boom Supersonic founder and CEO Blake Scholl ...

The way forward for the future of supersonic flying.

Never-before-seen footage filmed from inside the cockpit of a Concorde during a test flight in 1970 has been unearthed. The footage was taken by the late Bristol MP Tony Benn who was technology ...