The first commercial Concorde flights took off on January 21, 1976. Two Concordes, each operated by one of the partner ...
Supersonic jet engines were designed to push airliners past the sound barrier, not to keep racks of GPUs humming. Yet the same technology that could return high-speed passenger flight is now being ...
The NASA X-59 QueSST (Quiet SuperSonic Technology) is now flying and soon will start test flights aimed at reducing the sonic boom to a thump for people on the ground. While this seeks to overcome one ...
It would make a great Jeopardy question — what was the first airliner in the world to reach supersonic speeds? Many people would likely answer the Concorde, the distinctive and sleek supersonic ...
(CNN) — On January 21, 1976 a teenage John Tye was among crowds of onlookers clinging to a chain link fence, cheering as the first commercial British Airways Concorde flight departed from London’s ...