China has gone up against the US in an aerospace race as its state-owned aircraft manufacturer unveils blueprints for a new supersonic jet that can fly further and more quietly than Concorde.

Chinese media reported that the C949 would have a 50 per cent range boost over the retired Concorde and fly with a noise level like a blowing hairdryer. View on euronews ...

Aircraft maker Bombardier says it is close to finalizing assembly of the first Global 8000 business jet, the fastest civilian plane to fly since the Concorde ...

The Chinese airframer has a way to go in designing a supersonic airliner and has yet to fly a low-boom demonstrator similar ...

On April 23, 1988, smoking on planes for most U.S. air travel came to a halt. National legislation passed in 1989 made the ...

Fred Finn has flown over 15 million miles and around 2.5 million of those miles was aboard the storied Concorde-- in the same ...

Languages: English. Concorde's retirement in 2003 brought the curtain down on an age of supersonic passenger flights. Now, two decades later, Boom Supersonic is trying to revive that era.

Innovation in commercial aviation has been stuck for 60 years. A commercial supersonic jet might be back on the market soon, ...

Not many have heard of Bombardier, a business jet manufacturer headquartered in Montreal. The company trails the likes of ...

that may fly six times faster than the Concorde when it takes to the skies. The team first started working on the hypersonic jet in 2019, but are yet to make it go supersonic and reach speeds over ...

It would be the fastest civil aircraft since Concorde, the world's only successful supersonic passenger airplane. Jean-Christophe Gallagher, head of aircraft sales at Bombardier, said Global ...