NASA’s X-59 aircraft flew with its "wheels-up" for the first time last month and has continued to fly so that researchers can ...

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 ...

THE wheels are off in the battle to achieve supersonic air travel as NASA’s “Son of Concorde” passes another major milestone.

The return of supersonic commercial flights just got another step closer to reality. Boom Supersonic announced Saturday that its eighth test flight reached a new maximum altitude of 25,000 feet. It ...

The rather short-lived Concorde has set the standard for speed when it comes to civilian aircraft. With a maximum cruise speed of Mach 2.04 (1,350 mph/2,179 kph) at an altitude of 60,000 feet (18,288 ...

Supersonic passenger air travel is a thing of the past, but you can still tour the plane that made it possible. In 1962, the governments of Britain and France signed the Anglo-French Agreement, ...

Aided by a quartet of Rolls-Royce Olympus 593 engines, the Concorde, the world's only commercially successful supersonic passenger plane, was capable of flying at speeds up to 1,354 mph (2,179 kph).