Concorde made history and continues to influence the industry, even though it was a government-funded enterprise.

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It was supposed to be the jet that made Concorde look slow - a supersonic airliner capable of nearly Mach 3, carrying ...

Supercruise sounds like marketing spin, but in aviation it describes a very specific and demanding trick: flying faster than ...

A former Concorde engineer speaks to the BBC about discovering he worked alongside a Russian spy at the height of the Cold ...

Supersonic flight refers to aircraft travelling faster than the speed of sound, approximately Mach one at sea level, or ...

Bridgend-born Morien Morgan was the driving force behind something that became known the world over and was beloved of the ...

Concorde’s Mach-2 eclipse chase (30 June 1973) set the airborne totality record of 74 minutes and cemented its legacy as a ...

NASA’s sleek and quiet supersonic jet — which is built to reach speeds of up to 925 mph without producing a loud sonic boom— soared across the California desert in its first test flight on Tuesday, ...

A new "quiet" supersonic X-59 jet designed to revolutionize air travel successfully completed its first test flight, Lockheed Martin announced this week. The sleek, needle-point aircraft built for ...

The X-59 quiet supersonic jet, built for NASA by Lockheed Martin (NYSE:LMT), successfully completed its first test flight in California on Tuesday, paving the way for faster commercial air travel. The ...