The Concorde also flew from Gbadolite in Zaire to Europe. The plane was often hired by Mobutu Se Seseko to fly him and his ...

This means that Boom's vision for a far wider range of destinations is a lot more possible; potential routes include San ...

Boom Technology began ground testing of the aircraft in December 2022. Following a comprehensive taxi test campaign, the aircraft performed its maiden flight on January 28, 2025. The aircraft became ...

Concorde could routinely cross the Atlantic ... Its cabin was very loud due to rudimentary insulation. The Soviet supersonic ...

Between 1976, when Concorde began flights to the United ... As conceived, the Quiet Small Supersonic Transport would take you from New York to L.A. in about half the time of a conventional ...

Virgin Galactic strikes deal with NASA to work on supersonic rocket travel Virgin ... review for its low-boom… Read More The historic Concorde supersonic airliner set a record flying from ...

Why supersonic passenger flight didn’t take off Concorde was designed in the 1960s when it seemed like supersonic passenger transport was going to be the next big thing. Instead, the Boeing 747 ...

which had been confident of winning air supremacy with their Concorde supersonic transport. Lockheed’s All, and the American technological breakthroughs it implies, makes it almost certain that ...

On November 26, 2003, Concorde took off for the last time. After revolutionising air travel for nearly 30 years, spiralling costs and a fatal crash in the year 2000 forced the aircraft to retire.

“A good start to the year,” Scholl says. Supersonic planes travel at speeds greater than the speed of sound: Concorde passengers used to joke that you could have a first breakfast in ...