The supersonic Concorde jet makes its last commercial passenger flight, traveling at twice the speed of sound from New York City’s John F. Kennedy International Airport to London’s Heathrow Airport ...

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

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

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

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

The airline will be able to fly from New York to London, for example, in three hours 40 minutes, so New York to Palma, for ...

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

Boom Supersonic's 'Overture' could mark the return of supersonic air travel by 2029, cutting hours off UK to US flight time ...

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.

Jet engines have some of the highest entry barriers of any industry, since there are only 3.5 big engine primes. Yet four new entrants are developing their first products, and their success or failure ...

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

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