Captain Mike Bannister, who flew more Concorde hours than any other pilot, is hopeful about the future of the Boom Supersonic ...

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 ...

Boom's Supersonic XB-1 demonstrator is the first civil aircraft to break the sound barrier since the Concorde, reaching a speed of Mach 1.1 (around 844 miles per hour) over the Mojave desert in ...

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 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 ...

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

the speed of sound. The American-built civil supersonic jet is made from carbon fibre, and unlike Concorde’s droop nose, pilots will use an “augmented reality vision system” to see past its ...

the speed of sound. The American-built civil supersonic jet is made from carbon fibre, and unlike Concorde’s droop nose, pilots use an “augmented reality vision system” to see past its long ...