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 ...

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 ...

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.

American company Boom achieved a milestone Tuesday as its XB-1 aircraft exceeded the speed of sound for the first time during a supersonic test flight. The last flight of a supersonic airliner, ...

By achieving a top speed of Mach 1.1, Boom Supersonic has broken records and is on course to revive supersonic passenger ...