NASA’S “Son of Concorde” jet that could fly from the UK to New York in four hours has smashed through the sound barrier without triggering the usual sonic boom. The experimental ...

Bombardier’s Global 8000 business jet has set a new speed record on a flight ...

Canadian aircraft maker Bombardier flew the Global 800 from Los Angeles to the Farnborough International Airshow in the UK, setting a city pair record.

The Bombardier Global 8000 is the fastest civil jet since Concorde, combining Mach 0.95 speed, 8,000-nm range, and ...

The Global 8000 aircraft set its latest speed record en route to the Farnborough International Airshow, where the aircraft ...

A plane built by Nasa has broken the sound barrier without producing a sonic boom, bringing civilian supersonic flights a step closer.

Until Nasa and Lockheed Martin claimed their experimental X-59 may lead to a son of Concorde, the notion of commercial supersonic travel had been in long retirement.

NASA’s X-59 has reached 924 mph and 55,000 feet, bringing the agency closer to proving that future supersonic passenger flights can avoid thunderous sonic booms.The Latest Tech News, Delivered to Your ...

British-French supersonic jet Concorde flew so close to the edge of space that it had to carry a special radiation meter to ...

13:17, Tue, Jun 30, 2026 Updated: 13:20, Tue, Jun 30, 2026 NASA’s X-59 aircraft, dubbed the “Son of Concorde”, which could fly from the UK to New York in four hours, has successfully smashed the sound ...

People could reduce their flight times from the UK to Australia to just three hours. A new hypersonic space plane that ...

It is 50 years since Concorde began scheduled passenger flights, with British Airways operating a London-Bahrain service and Air France flying from Paris to Rio de Janeiro.… Technically, the Soviet ...