Denver-based Boom Technology's XB-1 demonstrator plane hit Mach 1.122 — 750 mph. It's the first independently developed ...

A 'new Concorde' has broken the sound barrier - the Boom XB-1 test plane was launched from California's Mojave Air and Space ...

French president Jacques Chirac was almost killed in the Concorde crash in Paris in July 2000, a new book claims. On that day, the burning Air France Concorde passed within seven yards of an Air ...

The XB-1 test plane, which is made by tech firm Boom, broke the speed of sound barrier at around 4.30pm GMT – as the American ...

Tests of the metallic strip found on the runway in Paris ... of the Concorde tyres. Investigators said that tests to try to reproduce the fuel tank rupture which occurred in the crash had "not ...

Concorde, the supersonic airliner ... the aircraft suffered its first and only fatal crash. An Air France charter flight hit a piece of runway debris at Paris Charles de Gaulle airport, causing ...

A US company's prototype jet has broken the sound barrier in a demonstration it hopes will pave the way for a successor to the Concorde.