While the prospect of commercial supersonic flights is probably at least a decade from becoming a reality due to Boom ...
In the case of Pan Am and the Aérospatiale/BAC Concorde SST, the hooning took place ... territory for the title of the fastest manned jet airplane ever to fly. All the while, Captain Paul Roitsch ...
The Concorde jet, which was grounded in 2003, was the only supersonic commercial airliner that ever flew, and had its maiden flight in 1969. At the time it was considered a technological marvel ...
THE 'Son of Concorde' XB-1 jet has successfully reached supersonic speeds today, breaking the sound barrier for the first time. The milestone makes the XB-1 the first US-built civil jet to reach ...
Denver-based Boom Technology's XB-1 demonstrator plane hit Mach 1.122 — 750 mph. It's the first independently developed ...