A startup says it can fly supersonic without the noisy boom. Here's how its airliner would compare to the famous Concorde.
A startup wants to revive the Concorde for the generations of flyers that missed out, without the noisy boom and the up to ...
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This Silent Plane Just Made History
Two weeks ago, Boom Supersonic’s XB-1 demonstrator plane made history when it broke the sound barrier over the continental ...
Supersonic jets are making a comeback. Here’s what that means for air passengers
It’s now the first piloted non-military aircraft to break the sound barrier since the Concorde was retired from service in ...
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How Much First Class Tickets Cost On New $1 Billion Concorde Project
Boom expects the airlines to be profitable at about $5,000 USD a seat, which of course is a high price tag, and the company ...
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I captained Concorde's last flight - I'm excited for the return of supersonic
Captain Mike Bannister, who flew more Concorde hours than any other pilot, is hopeful about the future of the Boom Supersonic ...
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XB-1 supersonic aircraft smashes sound barrier without explosive boom
If you've been keeping tabs on aviation news as of late, you saw that Boom Supersonic just recently broke the sound barrier ...
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Why did Concorde stop flying?
Widely regarded as the gold standard of aviation engineering, the Concorde could cruise across the Atlantic at twice the speed of sound and carry up to 128 passengers. During its heyday ...
'Baby Boom' – the jet that could bring back supersonic travel
Boom Supersonic, the Colorado-based company that made the jet, hailed its test flights as a major milestone towards the ...
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Supersonic jets are making a comeback. Here’s what that means for air passengers
Concorde had a capacity of up to 128 passengers and cruised at Mach 2. It regularly travelled from London to New York in around three hours. The flights were expensive, mainly shuttling business ...
Why did Concorde stop flying?
US aerospace firm wants to accept passengers by the end of 2029. But what was Concorde, its famous supersonic plane ...
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Supersonic jets are making a comeback. Here’s what that means for air passengers
Designs for supersonic airliners began in the mid-20th century, and by the 1970s we had supersonic passenger flight. There was the little-known Russian Tupolev-144 and Concorde, a Franco-British ...