With a booming passenger market, increasing premium demand, and access to modern technology and designs, the Overture will be ...

The Spike S-512 was conceived to overcome the sonic boom restrictions that limited Concorde. Its elongated fuselage shape, advanced materials, and windowless digital cabin were designed to reduce ...

The X-59 QueSST aims to be the first supersonic aircraft to reduce the "boom" to a "thumb" and overcome one of the great ...

American aerospace firm Boom Supersonic announced its first energy contract in the data centre sector in December and already ...

What role will F-15 jets play in the future of supersonic flight?

Yet a business jet that has just been certified by the European Union Aviation Safety Agency claims to be the natural ...

“We’re aiming to pick up where Concorde left off,” says Blake Scholl. Fifty years after the Anglo-French jet first carried paying passengers faster than the speed of sound, the Denver-based ...

NASA has taken a significant step forward in its pursuit of quieter supersonic flight by adding two F-15 aircraft to its ...

Use BBC.com or the new BBC App to listen to BBC podcasts, Radio 4 and the World Service outside the UK.

Humankind is always on a quest for speed: You can ride the fastest rollercoaster in the world, the Formula Rossa, at Ferrari World in Abu Dhabi, and the fastest land speed record was achieved in 1997 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Those who took the controls of Concorde say it was like no other airplane. Pilots tell CNN Travel the secrets of flying the ...

Top 10: Very cool planes from the Cold War ...