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THE ‘Son of Concorde’ XB-1 jet is set to take off on its inaugural supersonic flight today, where it will break the sound barrier for the first time. Bosses at Colorado-based Boom ...

Since Concorde's retirement at the start of the century, supersonic flights fully disappeared from global air travel networks, with British Airways and Air France becoming the only two carriers to ...

Son of a Concorde! No, that’s not an aviation geek-esque slam, but remove the ‘a’ and it’s the nickname of the jet that could ...

Sonic booms effectively killed the elegant Concorde supersonic airliner in the 1970s. The fleet-footed aircraft could reach ... forward view on a 4K monitor inside the cockpit.

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

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 ...