If you boil it down to the basic facts, the era of commercial supersonic flight was a European phenomenon. Concorde, its ...

Virgin Galactic, a brand of Sir Richard Branson famous for its low-earth orbit rocket ship, has decided to throw its hat into ...

A new supersonic aircraft that could travel from New York to London in just three hours and 40 minutes is being developed by ...

The race for quiet supersonic flight takes a leap forward with NASA's X-59. But what challenges remain before it becomes a ...

After the Space Race there was the supersonic race, as three countries vied to build the first passenger supersonic airliner ...

Planes are slow, and apart from the Concorde, they reached peak speed around 40 years ago, flying under the speed of sound.

Supersonic air travel could make a return to the skies. Almost 20 years after Concorde was grounded, a different supersonic ...

Just over two decades have passed since Concorde exited the UK passenger market and no plane has ever topped one important ...

Concorde was grounded and finally retired in 2003, and in June 2025 the United States cleared a piece of legislation which ...

French Transport Minister Jean-Claude Gayssot has said he is convinced that Concorde flights will resume -- despite the supersonic jet being grounded following the disaster near Paris two months ago.

In June 2025, the United States passed legislation that lifted the decades-old ban on supersonic travel over land. This would ...

Supersonic jet the Concorde first took off in 1969, then started offering incredibly fast commercial flights from 1979. The ...