A Concorde plane model, at the Saint Aubin Auction House in Toulouse. Photo by Rémy GABALDA / AFP The first Concorde supersonic passenger aircraft has been named as a historical monument ...

Imagine flying from New York to London in just 3 hours. The Concorde wasn’t just fast—it was faster than sound. This is the story of the supersonic airliner that redefined luxury travel.

The paper said the project looked to achieve a 50 per cent range boost over the Concorde and is designed to make the plane fly as quietly as the noise level of a hairdryer. It will do this with ...

Denver-based Boom Supersonic wants to revive Mach-speed travel with its Overture plane. Overture would feature improved efficiency, safety, and a quieter engine than Concorde. Boom's innovations ...

(Seats on the 1,300 mph Concorde plane, retired in 2003, were too expensive for most passengers, at some five times the cost of flying on a 747, which is largely why the plane commercially failed.

A civil plane has gone supersonic for the first time since Concorde, after a successful test flight in New Zealand. Dawn Aerospace's rocket-powered plane will eventually be used to launch ...

Ever since the Anglo-French Concorde retired in 2003, civil supersonic flight has been something of a lost art. In recent years, a number of startups have been working on various projects to ...

A civil plane has gone supersonic for the first time since Concorde, after a successful test flight in New Zealand. Dawn Aerospace's rocket-powered plane will eventually be used to launch satellites ...

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A Chinese company says it has conducted a test flight of a prototype commercial transport plane that can travel at Mach 4 – or twice the speed of a Concorde. Space Transportation, which is ...

Flown by royals, celebrities, and executives, it was discontinued because of high operating costs. A Concorde plane is open for public tours at the Intrepid Museum in New York City. In 1962, the ...