Virgin Galactic, a brand of Sir Richard Branson famous for its low-earth orbit rocket ship, has decided to throw its hat into the aviation market place. Specifically, with a supersonic jet capable of ...

US aerospace firm wants to accept passengers by the end of 2029. But what was Concorde, its famous supersonic plane ...

A US company's prototype jet has broken the sound barrier in a demonstration it hopes will pave the way for a successor to the Concorde. Boom Supersonic's XB-1 is the first civilian aircraft to ...

Boom expects the airlines to be profitable at about $5,000 USD a seat, which of course is a high price tag, and the company ...

The XB-1 is about one-third the size of the Overture jet that Boom ... would be built using new materials such as carbon fibre and would be more fuel-efficient than Concorde.

The iconic cone-nosed Concorde was retired in 2003 after an ... The company already has plans for a new jet that will be called Overture that will use the same supersonic technology.

The American-built civil supersonic jet is made from carbon fibre ... and previously claimed it would fly from London to New York in 3.5 hours, the same as Concorde. An Overture “Superfactory ...

The scaled-down prototype, nicknamed the "Baby Boom", broke the sound barrier for the first time during a test flight over ...

NASA says the X59 supersonic jet will produce a sonic thump instead of a sonic boom, which might help lower it's noise.

A startup wants to revive the Concorde for the generations of flyers that missed out, without the noisy boom and the up to ...