On February 10, in the skies above the Mojave Desert, the Boom Supersonic XB-1 test jet roared past Mach 1, tearing through ...

The Concorde was discontinued soon after a catastrophic ... Boom Supersonic’s XB-1 jet broke the sound barrier for the first ...

Concorde enabled passenger air travel faster than the speed of sound.The story of the renowned jet starts with the race to break the sound barrier in the 1940s and continues with the Anglo-French ...

Concorde's retirement in 2003 brought the ... made the aircraft the first privately developed jet to break the sound barrier—Mach 1, or about 767 mph. Overture will have a cruise speed of ...

existing aircraft can barely hope to come close to the breaking the sound barrier. Understandable, then, how such a machine can claim the title of fastest civilian aircraft since the Concorde ...

Concorde was right there at the front ... The moment you go through the sound barrier it becomes a much more difficult proposition. At the moment that presents too many obstacles in terms of ...

The jet is set to be the fastest civilian aircraft since Concorde and will fly at top ... During its test flights in 2021, Global 8000 broke the sound barrier, reaching Mach 1.015 (1, 1253 km ...

Set to become the fastest civilian aircraft since the Concorde's retirement, the Global 8000 boasts a top speed of Mach 0.94 (1,152 km/h) – just a whisker shy of breaking the sound barrier.

Examines the bittersweet destiny of the Concorde, one of the only commercial aircraft in history to break the sound barrier, through interviews with former pilots, engineers, archival materials ...