A newly released image shows the sound barrier being broken on February 10 as Boom Supersonic’s XB-1, America’s first civil ...

Virgin Galactic’s private jet represents a very bold step toward making supersonic travel a reality for an elite few. Unlike ...

Similar to a delta wing, the Soviet-developed Tu-144 incorporated special retractable foreplanes (canards) to improve lift ...

Hundreds of Concorde fans gathered to watch. The plane and the rest of the Air France Concorde aircraft will be retired -- one to an exhibit at Charles de Gaulle Airport and the other four to museums.

Even some civilian aircraft have done it: the Concorde, a supersonic passenger jet developed in the 1960s by the United Kingdom and France, made regular supersonic flights across the Atlantic Ocean, ...