Comparing the Boom Overture to Concorde and its commercial viability.

First introduced into commercial airline service in January 1976, the 90- to 120-passenger Concorde supersonic transport (SST) is one of only two such aircraft ever to take to the skies (the other was ...

Denver-based Boom Supersonic has chosen Greensboro, North Carolina, as the site of its first manufacturing facility, the “Overture Superfactory.” There, Boom will build its updated version of the ...

This guest essay reflects the views of Daniel Serota, mayor of the Village of Brookville and chair of the Regional SST Oversight Coalition. Is Long Island destined to hear once more the approach of ...

Ever since the supersonic Concorde was grounded in 2003, airline passengers — at least, wealthy airline passengers—have yearned for the return of faster-than-sound transit. Today, a trip from New York ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. When United Airlines announced earlier this month that it had made a deal to purchase 15 airliners still under development from ...

After World War II, as early supersonic military aircraft were pushing the boundaries of flight, it seemed like a foregone conclusion that commercial aircraft would eventually fly faster than sound as ...

Is there anything that hasn't been said about the Anglo-French Concorde supersonic passenger airliner that hasn't already been said? Even over half a century after its first flight, no aircraft from ...

THE U.S. has seldom been reluctant to embrace either technological change or the challenge of great national projects. It is a sign of the questioning times that disquiet now attends a project of just ...