The race is heating up to produce the first supersonic passenger aircraft to enter commercial service in more than 50 years. US planemaker Aerion, whose AS2 jet promises to fly New York to London in 4 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. “Supersonic” may bring to mind the 1970’s Concorde or today’s lightning-fast fighter jets, but the term has come to mean something ...

On January 15 a Boeing 787-9 Dreamliner flying from New York's JFK airport to London Gatwick set a new journey speed record. The aircraft, owned by budget airline Norwegian, completed its 3,470 mile ...

The long-held dream of a successor to Concorde just got a little farther away as one of the major contenders in the race to build a supersonic passenger jet appears to have run out of financial fuel.

A new era of supersonic flight might be just around the corner, but there are three challenges to overcome when it comes to flying faster than the speed of sound. Those are the three Es of aviation: ...