The Tu-144's small retractable canard foreplanes, which were installed after 1971, are the most noticeable external ...

After the Space Race there was the supersonic race, as three countries vied to build the first passenger supersonic airliner ...

To many, when they think of supersonic airliners, they instantly think of Concorde. The joint Anglo-French aircraft that served for nearly 30 years, ferrying people across the Atlantic at Mach 2.

The Concorde jet was one of the crowning achievements in aviation. It was a supersonic passenger jet, meaning that it broke the speed of sound while flying. Your average Boeing 737-800 flying with ...

Here’s What You Need To Remember: The problems Concorde experienced were due to regulations and market forces, rather than shortcomings inherent to the airframe itself. The Soviet-built Tu-144 ...

Concorde was the result of a joint program between France's Sud Aviation and the United Kingdom's British Aircraft ...

Here’s What You Need To Remember: The problems Concorde experienced were due to regulations and market forces, rather than shortcomings inherent to the airframe itself. The Soviet-built Tu-144 ...

The Administration is about to take another, and possibly decisive, step in the long, long journey toward a U.S. supersonic transport program. A governmental study group has split evenly between ...

If you boil it down to the basic facts, the era of commercial supersonic flight was a European phenomenon. Concorde, its ...

Boom Supersonic – a Colorado-based startup – wants to transform the aviation industry by flying passengers from London to New York in about three and a half hours. But its flagship aircraft, the ...

The Berlin Wall came down on Nov. 9, 1989. This was the beginning of the end for the Soviet Union. Eastern Europe was mostly freed from the "Iron Curtain'' imposed by Russia after World War II by the ...