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However, this does not mean that the two European flag carriers' liveries during Concorde's operational career were the only paint schemes applied to the iconic Mach 2 capable airliner. Indeed, a ...

Boom Supersonic has achieved the first supersonic flight of its X-B1 demonstrator aircraft, heralding a major step forward in the development of its Concorde-like Overture plane. Tuesday’s XB-1 ...

(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.

However, given the almost unique nature of Concorde as an aircraft at the time of its production (the jet had rivals in the US and the USSR, although both were commercial failures), it took longer ...

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 ...

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 ...

if we have faster airplanes, we don’t need as many.” Like Concorde, the XB-1 and Overture both have a long nose and a high angle of attack for takeoff and landing, which interrupts the pilots ...

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 ...