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What We Know About The Mysterious Supersonic Lockheed Martin X-59 Quesst

Decades after Concorde's retirement, the appeal of traveling over an ocean faster than the speed of sound remains strong. Engineers have changed the problem over the past 50 years: how can breaking ...
Flightglobal

Boom courts business aviation market amid renewed interest in supersonic flight

Leading the charge is Boom Supersonic, which is exhibiting at NBAA-BACE for the first time. Unlike its erstwhile counterpart and one-time NBAA-BACE regular Aerion, Boom is targeting the airline market ...
The Conversation

Is supersonic air travel about to return, two decades after the last Concorde flight?

Kingston University provides funding as a member of The Conversation UK. An experimental supersonic aircraft called the X-59 took to the skies for the first time in October. The plane lifted off from ...
SlashGear

How Fast Could The Concorde Cross The Atlantic?

There was nothing like the Concorde when it went into flight service in 1976, and there's been nothing like it since. This supersonic jet was able to fly faster than sound travels, breaking the sound ...