Boom, the American company building what promises to be the world’s fastest airliner, broke the sound barrier for its first time with a test flight in ... prototype for Concorde first flew ...

A US company's prototype jet has broken the sound barrier in a demonstration it hopes will pave the way for a successor to the Concorde. Boom Supersonic's XB-1 is the first civilian aircraft to ...

fly at speeds between Mach 1.2 to Mach 2.5. But a range of factors led to Concorde falling out of favour, including the fatal tragic crash of Air France Flight 4590 in 2000 which dented public ...

The hotly anticipated plane already has 130 orders and pre-orders from American Airlines, United Airlines and Japan Airlines. It’s now almost 55 years since the 002 prototype for Concorde first ...

The test flight took place in the same Mojave Desert area in California where Charles "Chuck" Yeager first broke the sound barrier in 1947.

Almost 22 years after Concorde made its final commercial flights, a prototype passenger jet is attempting to break the sound barrier – and its first supersonic test flight takes off today (28 ...

Boom’s test plane is named after Mr Yeager’s iconic aircraft, the Bell X-1. Former Concorde chief pilot Mike Bannister, who looked on as the test flight took off, said it was “absolutely ...

For example, NASA's joint project with Lockheed Martin, the X-59 aircraft, allegedly reduces the infamous sonic boom to a "sonic thump," according to the organization. Although the Concorde was ...

A prototype of a passenger jet meant to succeed Concorde has broken the sound barrier on its first test flight Boom Supersonic tested its XB-1 jet above the Mojave Desert in California The US ...

(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.