Oxford Mail Camera Club members have been finding photos of the 'good old days' in their archives. That was our latest weekly theme and it prompted a fascinating set of nostalgic snaps from our club ...

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

The XB-1, piloted by chief test pilot Tristan "Geppetto" Brandenburg, reached an altitude of 34,000 feet before accelerating ...

An American Airlines jet with 60 passengers and four crew members aboard collided Wednesday with an Army helicopter carrying three soldiers as the plane was landing at Ronald Reagan National Airport ...

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

An aircraft developed by Boom Supersonic became the first independently funded jet to break the sound barrier this week.

The XB-1 – or Baby Boom – is a demonstrator version of the larger Overture aircraft that will carry up to 80 passengers.

The Concorde aircraft, despite actually managing to be profitable, proved that airlines could, in theory, turn a profit if ...

A sleek white aircraft became the first independently developed jet to break the sound barrier Tuesday, tearing through the ...

Colorado-based Boom Supersonic plans to build the Overture airliner, which it says will carry as many as 80 passengers while ...

Commercial supersonic jets could grace the skies once again after Boom Supersonic's XB-1 jet broke the sound barrier in test ...

Today a civil test airliner, Boom Technology’s XB-1, broke the sound barrier for the first time in two decades.