Another detail shared by the tour guide: the Concorde’s reflective white paint wasn't merely a design choice by British Airways, or indeed by Air France for its own Concordes. Instead, it helped ...

The scaled-down prototype, nicknamed the "Baby Boom", broke the sound barrier for the first time during a test flight over ...

One of the biggest problems facing supersonic aircraft today is the sonic boom issue. Once an airplane goes fast enough, the noise of breaking the sound barrier at best is annoying but, at worse, ...

Virgin Galactic, a brand of Sir Richard Branson famous for its low-earth orbit rocket ship, has decided to throw its hat into the aviation market place. Specifically, with a supersonic jet capable of ...

The Boom Supersonic's XB-1 aircraft ... the grounding of the Anglo-French Concorde more than two decades ago. Boom plans to focus next on the Overture airliner, which it says will carry as many ...

A search for a missing plane carrying ten people has ended with the discovery of wreckage in Alaska and recovery of all the victims' bodies. Alaska Department of Public Safety, in a news release 2 ...

There was the little-known Russian Tupolev-144 and Concorde, a Franco-British supersonic airliner operated by British Airways and Air France from 1976 to 2003. Concorde had a capacity of up to 128 ...

At least two people were killed Friday after a small plane crashed onto a busy road and collided with a bus in São Paulo, southern Brazil, leaving charred aircraft parts strewn along the highway.

All major pieces of the American Airlines plane and Black Hawk helicopter that collided last week in Washington, DC, have been recovered, the National Transportation Safety Board announced Saturday.

A teenage boy who brandished two firearms and demanded a plane at a southwestern Arkansas airport was arrested after being confronted by a local pilot, authorities said. Police received reports of ...

A 15-year-old boy stormed a small regional airport in Arkansas with an AR-style rifle while demanding a plane — until he was stopped by a “heroic” pilot who ran and grabbed his own gun ...

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