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With hundreds of business-jet speed records logged, patents on supersonic and testing programs, and a backlog estimated at $20 billion, this aerospace company, a subsidiary of General Dynamics ...

the XB-1 aircraft, a demonstrator vehicle that is the brainchild of Scholl’s 11-year old company, Boom Supersonic, is expected to become the first private flying machine built neither by a ...

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China, ranked third, has been investing heavily in modernising its air force and recently added its sixth-generation fighter jet to its fleet. The country is also working on supersonic aircraft.