The Tu-144, the Soviet Union's answer to the Concorde, is one of aviation history's most iconic and ambitious supersonic ...

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The Tu-144, developed by the Tupolev Design Bureau in the 1960s, was the Soviet Union's answer to the Concorde, marking the ...

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Is the future of air travel supersonic again like the Concorde?

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Supersonic travel is moving closer to reality, after a successful test by a Texas startup that could one day fly passengers from New York to Paris in just 55 minutes.

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Scholl’s company, Boom Supersonic, is the Denver-based fir m behind the XB-1. Boom Supersonic’s XB-1 demonstrator aircraft broke the sound barrier for its first time ever in late January.

Supersonic aircraft tend to fly at high altitudes (Concorde flew at 60,000ft (18km) rather than the 40,000ft (12km) typical for most passenger jets) to take advantage of lower turbulence levels.

Space & Spaceflight NASA Just Fired up Its Quiet Supersonic Jet—and It Looks Like Pure Speed The X-59 is proving out the agency's quiet supersonic technology, and looking great in the process.