A startup wants to revive the Concorde for the generations of flyers that missed out, without the noisy boom and the up to ...
Being a test pilot isn’t always the healthiest business in the world. [In the 1950s, test pilots were being killed at the ...
Boom Supersonic’s XB-1 creates a sonic boom inaudible from the ground below when flying at the exact right speed and altitude ...
Fargo Jet Center (FJC) is proud to announce the successful completion of an advanced avionics and performance upgrade for a ...
For ex-Concorde pilot Mike Bannister, it is personal. "I have been waiting over 20 years for the return of supersonic speeds, and XB-1's historic flight is a major landmark towards my dreams being ...
marking the first human-piloted civil supersonic flight since the Concorde's retirement over 20 years ago. The XB-1, piloted by chief test pilot Tristan "Geppetto" Brandenburg, reached an altitude ...
The Concorde passenger jet never really took off ... same Mojave Desert airspace in California where Charles "Chuck" Yeager, a World War II ace fighter pilot who became a military test pilot after the ...
Former chief Concorde pilot for British Airways, Mike Bannister, told Independent: “I’ve been waiting over 20 years for the return of supersonic speeds, and XB-1’s historic flight is a major landmark ...
Boom is well on its way towards making sustainable supersonic flight a reality, aboard Overture – my number one choice as a successor to Concorde. "Congratulations to [CEO] Blake Scholl, all at Boom ...
The American-built civil supersonic jet is made from carbon fibre, and unlike Concorde’s droop nose, pilots use an “augmented reality vision system” to see past its long nose for takeoff and ...