The US Air Force remains a major customer of Prestwick Airport, a key refuelling stop for its planes. The airport undertakes fuelling with its own staff, as is the case with air traffic control and a ...

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

The XB-1 broke the sound barrier three times during its 13th and final test flight, which lifted off Monday from the Mojave ...

Supersonic planes will burn significantly more fuel than current aircraft, resulting in higher emissions of carbon dioxide, ...

It’s now the first piloted non-military aircraft to break the sound barrier since the Concorde was retired from service in ...

When I say American Concorde, you think of the Boeing 2707. But another design almost won the government contract, the ...

A Carnegie Mellon University grad is behind the successful flight earlier this week of the first independently developed jet ...

Today’s a day I’ve been looking forward to for more than a decade,” said Blake Scholl, Boom's visionary founder and chief ...

Only 20 were built, of which 14 were used for passenger service. A deadly crash more than two decades ago hastened the jet's demise. On July 25, 2000, an Air France Concorde crashed into a hotel ...

An aircraft developed by Boom Supersonic became the first independently funded U.S. jet to break the sound barrier this week. The XB-1 aircraft accelerated to Mach 1.05 at about 35,000 feet during a ...