I went on board two Concordes, including the first prototype, at Paris's air and space museum. Concorde, retired in 2003 due to costs and a crash, flew at more than twice the speed of sound. Boom ...

Comparing the Boom Overture to Concorde and its commercial viability.

Decades after Concorde's retirement, the appeal of traveling over an ocean faster than the speed of sound remains strong. Engineers have changed the problem over the past 50 years: how can breaking ...

It has been over two decades since the operations of commercial supersonic services ceased due to Concorde's withdrawal. However, it appears that commercial supersonic flights are returning amid Boom ...

“We’re aiming to pick up where Concorde left off,” says Blake Scholl. Fifty years after the Anglo-French jet first carried paying passengers faster than the speed of sound, the Denver-based ...

The closest I’ve ever been to being on a supersonic flight was looking at the Concorde on static display at the Intrepid Museum in New York. But, for an entire generation of travelers and aviators, ...

Fifty years after the Concorde first flew, a new era of innovation and entrepreneurial ideas seeks to make supersonic flight practical and sustainable. Flying passengers at twice the speed of sound, ...

After World War II, as early supersonic military aircraft were pushing the boundaries of flight, it seemed like a foregone conclusion that commercial aircraft would eventually fly faster than sound as ...

Today, many military aircraft can break the sound barrier to enter supersonic flight. Certain commercial models can as well, including the Concorde, which is famous for its record-breaking flights. As ...

President Trump signed an executive order Friday that could clear the skies for Boom Supersonic’s Overture, the sleek craft being designed and tested at Centennial Airport that could become the ...

In 1956, the Supersonic Transport Aircraft Committee was established with the aim of investigating the feasibility of SSTs.

The X-59 is designed to transform the sonic boom associated with supersonic flight into a “sonic thump”—making it feasible to fly over populated areas. NASA’s new X-59 experimental jet flew for the ...