Colorado company Boom Supersonic plans to break the sound barrier with its test plane XB-1 during a test flight this morning, ...
The same airspace saw Chuck Yeager become the first person to exceed the speed of sound in 1947. Boom’s test plane is named after Mr Yeager’s iconic aircraft, the Bell X-1. Former Concorde ...
A prototype of a passenger jet designed to succeed the supersonic Concorde broke the sound barrier for the first time on ...
The return of supersonic travel has been remarkably slow for something faster than the speed of sound ... 55 years since the 002 prototype for Concorde first flew at Mach 1 on March 25, 1970 ...
If successful, it could pave the way for the first US-built commercial supersonic jet to enter the market, reigniting the ...
Ever since the Concorde stopped flying, aviation buffs have dreamed of a civilian supersonic plane. Now there's been a ...
THE 'Son of Concorde' XB-1 jet has successfully reached ... where Chuck Yeager became the first person to fly faster than the speed of sound in 1947, in his Bell X-1 plane.
THE 'Son of Concorde' XB-1 jet is set to take off on ... where Chuck Yeager became the first person to fly faster than the speed of sound in 1947, in his Bell X-1 plane. On the ground, Boom's ...