Boom Technology began ground testing of the aircraft in December 2022. Following a comprehensive taxi test campaign, the ...

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

As conceived, the Quiet Small Supersonic Transport would take you from New York to L.A. in about half the time of a conventional subsonic business jet. Working with George and Seebass's theory for ...

The last SR-71 flights took place in the late 1990s. As early as 1956 Britain and France began research on developing a supersonic transport. The result was Concorde, a sharp-nosed white jet ...

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Five years before Concorde’s first flight, another majestic supersonic aircraft took to the skies — and almost became the inspiration for an even faster passenger plane. It was the XB-70 ...

Could all our future planes travel faster than the speed of sound? It’s been more than 20 years since the last supersonic passenger flight took off, but a US company wants to bring it back.

The Supersonic Transport It is technologically feasible to build passenger aircraft capable of 2,000-mile-an-hour speeds. Several designs have been proposed the chief problem is to attain ...

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