A plane is supersonic if it moves faster than the speed of sound in air, which is around 343 meters per second (767 miles per ...

France's culture minister Rachida Dati has announced the designation of Concorde Number 1 – a model of the Franco-British ...

TECHNOLOGY is rapidly changing on the ground, in space and the sky in between. Here’s a glimpse into the not-so-distant ...

The first Concorde supersonic passenger aircraft has been named as a historical monument. Concorde 001, which was the first of the 20 aircraft built and the first to take to the skies in a test flight ...

PARIS - The first Concorde supersonic passenger aircraft has been named as a historical monument, France’s culture minister said on May 5. Concorde 001, which was the first of the 20 aircraft ...

The Concorde entered into commercial service in 1976, and to date is the world’s only supersonic passenger plane, travelling faster than sound at speeds that whisked an elite class of travellers ...

This is the first time anyone in the United States has flown a reusable hypersonic rocket plane since the last flight of the ...

Stratolaunch's Talon-A2 vehicle went hypersonic for the first time in December, then repeated the feat in March.

France developed a radical supersonic fighter that combined a turbofan and a ramjet to push beyond Mach 2. This experimental aircraft set speed records and had the potential to outpace the fastest ...

Imagine a 1950s-era aircraft with no runway needs, supersonic speed, and enough jet engines to rival a spaceship. That was ...

Stratolaunch completed two flights of its autonomous Talon-A2 rocket plane earlier this year, as the US aims to gain ground ...