The single-seat jet, a 201-foot-long test model by Boom Supersonic, hit 844 mph just 12 minutes into its latest test flight ...
Denver-based Boom Technology's XB-1 demonstrator plane hit Mach 1.122 — 750 mph. It's the first independently developed ...
Commercial supersonic jets could grace the skies once again after Boom Supersonic's XB-1 jet broke the sound barrier in test ...
2000 (25 July): An Air France Concorde catches fire shortly after take-off from Paris Charles de Gaulle. The crash kills all 109 people on board and four people on the ground. 2000 (15 August ...
Meanwhile, Air France launched Concorde on the route from Paris to Rio de Janeiro via Dakar ... increased costs, and the crash of Air France flight 4590), with the plane going down in history as a ...
However, this does not mean that the two European flag carriers' liveries during Concorde's ... career with the Paris-based French flag carrier and SkyTeam founding member was tragically cut short ...
“It was a sports car, it wasn’t a Rolls Royce,” says Fred Finn wistfully as he provides a second-by-second account of taking off in Concorde, the iconic supersonic airliner. “It was bumpy — you sure ...
The fastest ever commercial transatlantic flight was in 1996 when a British Airways Concorde flew from New York JFK to Heathrow in two hours 52 minutes and 59 seconds. It comes as millions of ...
A prototype of a passenger jet meant to succeed Concorde will attempt to break the sound barrier for the first time on Tuesday. Boom Supersonic’s XB-1 demonstrator is set to exceed Mach 1 (770 ...
President Donald Trump signed actions on the first day of his second term to pull the United States out of the Paris Agreement, an international climate change treaty in which nearly 200 countries ...
In a recent tweet, the American billionaire investor casually proclaimed that AI must "crash" everyone's wages before it can deliver us an economic utopia — one that'll definitely happen ...