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Two decades after Concorde’s last flight a new class of supersonic commercial jets are on the horizon. Boom Supersonic's experimental XB-1 jet (shown in a Schlieren photograph) has flown at supersonic ...

A number of factors led to the Concorde ceasing all operations in 2003, including a fatal crash that killed 113 people in ...

Aided by a quartet of Rolls-Royce Olympus 593 engines, the Concorde, the world's only commercially successful supersonic passenger plane, was capable of flying at speeds up to 1,354 mph (2,179 kph).

The rather short-lived Concorde has set the standard for speed when it comes to civilian aircraft. With a maximum cruise speed of Mach 2.04 (1,350 mph/2,179 kph) at an altitude of 60,000 feet (18,288 ...

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A decade after its final flight, Jonathan Glancey pays tribute to that most glamorous of aircraft – and argues for it as an icon of the 20th Century. Concorde flew for the last time ten years ago.

Boom, an aerospace startup that hopes to usher in a new age of affordable supersonic civilian air travel, has unveiled the first scale prototype of the Boom Passenger Jet. Dubbed the XB-1 or “Baby ...

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