Comparing the Boom Overture to Concorde and its commercial viability.

Since the last Concorde touched down for the final time in 2003, commercial aviation has operated at a curious standstill.

I went on board two Concordes, including the first prototype, at Paris's air and space museum. Concorde, retired in 2003 due to costs and a crash, flew at more than twice the speed of sound. Boom ...

The intrepid human spirit has constantly pushed the boundaries of how fast we can go. From 100-yard dashes and marathons to the land speed records set on various vehicles, the pursuit of speed has ...

The closest I’ve ever been to being on a supersonic flight was looking at the Concorde on static display at the Intrepid Museum in New York. But, for an entire generation of travelers and aviators, ...

“We’re aiming to pick up where Concorde left off,” says Blake Scholl. Fifty years after the Anglo-French jet first carried paying passengers faster than the speed of sound, the Denver-based ...

After World War II, as early supersonic military aircraft were pushing the boundaries of flight, it seemed like a foregone conclusion that commercial aircraft would eventually fly faster than sound as ...

(CNN) — The skies over the United States could be wide open for much faster air travel in the near future. Not just because passenger planes capable of breaking the sound barrier are in development — ...

CC0 Usage Conditions ApplyClick for more information. Fifty years after the Concorde first flew, a new era of innovation and entrepreneurial ideas seeks to make supersonic flight practical and ...

President Donald Trump has ordered the Federal Aviation Administration to scrap a longstanding ban on supersonic air travel across the U.S. and replace it with a to-be-determined set of regulations ...

Today, many military aircraft can break the sound barrier to enter supersonic flight. Certain commercial models can as well, including the Concorde, which is famous for its record-breaking flights. As ...

In 1956, the Supersonic Transport Aircraft Committee was established with the aim of investigating the feasibility of SSTs.