The Chinese airframer has a way to go in designing a supersonic airliner and has yet to fly a low-boom demonstrator similar ...

Chinese media reported that the C949 would have a 50 per cent range boost over the retired Concorde and fly with a noise ...

Beijing knows that it needs to take over commercial aviation. Supersonic flight is key to that.

The first details of C949, a supersonic airliner project, have been quietly unveiled by Chinese state-owned aerospace giant ...

To make this doable in routine operation by that four-engine airliner ... ambitions for quieter supersonic flight have slowly advanced. For example, the X-59 test plane Lockheed Martin is building ...

Virgin Galactic has taken the wraps off a concept for an airplane capable of flying three times the speed of sound, to be developed with support from Boeing and Rolls-Royce.… Read More A boon ...

NASA and Lockheed Martin’s Quesst project aims to show sonic ... In a world of remote work and video meetings, is there still a need for a supersonic airliner in the 2020s? For now, supersonic ...

Meanwhile, although supersonic airliners haven’t been flying since the Concorde retired in 2003, the Lockheed Martin X-59 Quesst supersonic airplane that is being built for NASA looks set to fix ...

NASA and Lockheed Martin have been working on the X-59 for a while. It was developed under NASA's Quesst (Quiet SuperSonic Technology) program. The aircraft is designed to hit supersonic speeds ...

China is planning to build a supersonic airliner that can reach Mach 1.6. It is to be designed in such a way that it can fly further than the Concorde. The Chinese supersonic aircraft Comac C949 ...