More than two decades after Concorde’s retirement, commercial aviation is once again preparing to break the sound barrier.

The demonstrator aircraft, XB-1, flew 10% faster than the speed of sound and in doing so broke the sound barrier. Boom ...

Imagine the Concorde arriving a decade earlier - that was Convair’s bold vision with the Model 58-9, a supersonic airliner ...

Supersonic flight began with dangerous experiments in the 20th century and culminated in Chuck Yeager breaking the sound barrier in 1947 with the Bell X-1. Commercial supersonic travel briefly thrived ...