LONDON, (AP) – The Concorde was a big step closer to resuming service Tuesday after British Airways completed its first supersonic test flight of the aircraft since last year’s Air France crash near ...

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 ...

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 ...

The way forward for the future of supersonic flying.

Denver-based Boom Technology's XB-1 demonstrator plane hit Mach 1.122 — 750 mph. It's the first independently developed supersonic jet. The... A private company aiming to build the first supersonic ...

When Concorde entered service in 1976, it transformed long-distance travel. Cruising at more than twice the speed of sound, the aircraft could connect London and New York in under three-and-a-half ...

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 ...