And then there was the flying machine that brought Scholl up short: a British Airways supersonic Concorde, which went into commercial service in 1976 and was permanently mothballed in 2003.
CINCINNATI (WKRC) - Ever since the Concorde retired in 2003 after only 27 years of flying, supersonic commercial flights have seemingly been a pipe dream, but new developments in science in ...
SON of Concorde' XB-1 jet is "on track" to break the sound barrier in early 2025, makers of the supersonic plane have announced. In its first major update of the year, bosses at Colorado-based ...
According to a Boom Supersonic blog on January 10, the 44-minute 11th test flight by Chief Test Pilot Tristan “Geppetto” Brandenburg, which reached Mach 0.95, was about taking XB-1 to a dynamic ...
Commercial supersonic flight sped closer to returning as the Boom Supersonic XB-1 prototype reached a transonic speed of Mach 0.95 during Test Flight 11 on January 10, 2025, in the skies over the ...
Boom Supersonic is one step closer to launching the spiritual heir to the Concorde. The US firm’s XB-1 prototype reached a transonic speed of Mach 0.95 during Test Flight 11 on January 10 ...