With new flights poised for JFK, the 1970s war over Concorde landings show the harm in delaying conversations with LI ...

An artist's impression of the Boeing 2707 supersonic jet. Credit: Alamy While Concorde is the name that springs to mind in the context of supersonic air travel, there were three contenders locked ...

Boeing wanted to create its own supersonic transport (SST) for America and set out to build the 2707. The plane took some cues from the Concorde jet, such as a drooping nose.

When I say American Concorde, you think of the Boeing 2707. But another design almost won the government contract, the Lockheed L-2000. It was cheaper and easier to build and had it been put into ...

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 ...

The Birth of the Concorde. On October 14, 1947, Chuck Yeager broke through. Cruising in an experimental Bell X-1 aircraft at an altitude in excess of 40,000 feet, the test pilot made history by ...

By 1954, Arnold Hall, director of the Royal Aircraft Establishment (RAE), asked aeronautical engineer Morien Morgan to form a committee and study the feasibility of supersonic transport (SST).

Both the Concorde and the Tupolev Tu-144 were frighteningly inefficient in the air. The Tu-144 consumed a staggering 36,000 kg (79,366 pounds) of fuel per hour in supersonic flight. The Concorde ...

Within days of the crash, all Concorde aircraft were grounded pending an investigation. While the SST did return to the skies a year later, its days were numbered.

CHINA’S state-owned aircraft company Comac has revealed plans for a stealthy supersonic jet that can fly at more than 1,200mph. Designs for the ultra-fast jet, dubbed C949, promise significan… ...

Boeing wanted to create its own supersonic transport (SST) for America and set out to build the 2707. The plane took some cues from the Concorde jet, such as a drooping nose.