Today a civil test airliner, Boom Technology’s XB-1, broke the sound barrier for the first time in two decades.

It was just shy of the record of 835mph, which was reached by a commercial aircraft from New York JFK to Lisbon in February last ... flight was in 1996 when a British Airways Concorde flew from ...

American company Boom Supersonic flew faster than the speed of sound with its XB-1 supersonic demonstrator aircraft. It's now the fir ...

A long-overdue copy of Ernest Hemingway’s The Sun Also Rises has finally been returned to the Greenwich Library—56 years late ...

Brandenburg then concluded this 35-minute flight with a smooth landing back at Mojave. This was the first time a civil aircraft had broken the sound barrier in level flight since the final flight of ...

Fredericksburg's Disability Resource Center, a warehouse of donated, new and gently used medical devices.

Supersonic air travel has been reserved for military pilots since Concorde went out of ... a record-breaking transatlantic flight soon. The winds look set to last into the weekend, and experts ...

Scholl regularly cites the failure of existing aircraft manufacturers to develop a successor to the Concorde ... Newark or JFK and Heathrow. Many longer transatlantic flights and most transpacific ...

Here’s a look at commercial passenger airplane crashes. For crashes caused by military acts or by terrorism, see Terrorism and War-Related Airplane Crashes Fast Facts. On August 12, 1985, the largest ...

Despite Concorde making its first commercial flight 45 years ago, Finn’s obsession with ... Jeremy Clarkson and Piers Morgan set off one last time from JFK. Of those famous faces, Clarkson and Morgan ...