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TravelPublished: October 8, 2024

While the Concorde’s engine relied on thousands of parts to break the sound barrier, a Houston startup has unveiled an engine so revolutionary that it has no moving parts, yet it can propel an aircraft from New York to London in just 45 minutes

There are several organizations and start-ups across the world that are working on developing hypersonic jets capable of flying at speeds above Mach 5…

TravelPublished: October 2, 2024

The Concorde, with its free-flowing champagne and caviar, offered a flying experience so luxurious and expensive that even the rich could barely afford it. But the man building the American version of the Concorde wants to offer it to the low-cost carrier Southwest Airlines.

by Sayan Chakravarty

Boom Supersonic recently conducted a fourth test flight of its proof-of-concept XB-1 successfully, bringing it a step closer to turning the Boom Overture into…

TravelPublished: September 13, 2024

An American aerospace startup has chosen a Florida airport as the location to develop an advanced testing facility for its hypersonic aircraft, capable of flying from New York to London in just 90 minutes

by Sayan Chakravarty

American aerospace startup Hermeus announced the groundbreaking of its new test facility and a flight test base at the Cecil Airport in Jacksonville, Florida….

TravelPublished: August 28, 2024

The American Concorde is one tiny step closer to reality as Boom Supersonic’s demo aircraft successfully completed its second test flight

by Sayan Chakravarty

Boom Supersonic has announced that it has successfully completed the second test flight of its XB-1 demonstrator aircraft. Boom Supersonic released a cinematic video…

TravelPublished: August 26, 2024

Boeing wanted to build a supersonic jet bigger and faster than the Concorde. It spent billions of taxpayers’ dollars and failed miserably. Also planned in Florida was an airport five times the size of New York’s JFK for these jets to land. It lies abandoned and has now turned into a swamp.

by Sayan Chakravarty

It’s been more than two decades since the iconic Concorde flew for the last time, ending the supersonic commercial air travel era. Multiple aircraft…

TravelPublished: August 13, 2024

Scientists from China have developed a revolutionary aircraft engine so powerful that it can make the Concorde feel like a tortoise. Capable of propelling a plane to a mind-boggling speed of 20,000 km/hr, it can fly from New York to London in just 17 minutes.

by Sayan Chakravarty

It has been more than two decades since the final Concorde flight touched the ground, bringing an end to the storied history of the…

TravelPublished: July 25, 2024

Unlike the Concorde, which had one of the most complex cockpits filled with hundreds of dials and switches, its American successor will use multiple iPad-sized screens and cutting-edge augmented reality headsets, making it extremely easy to fly.

by Sayan Chakravarty

Boom Supersonic has taken another step towards its ambitious goal of reintroducing commercial supersonic air travel by the end of this decade. The Colorado-based…

TravelPublished: July 9, 2024

This futuristic rocket-propelled hypersonic jet can fly from New York to Paris in 2 hours while taking passengers to the edge of space for an unparalleled experience. The craft features pop-out glass pods, allowing flyers to enjoy unobstructed views of Earth from their seats.

by Sayan Chakravarty

Over the last few years, private aerospace companies such as SpaceX, Blue Origin, and Virgin Galactic have made humanity’s collective dream of space tourism…

TravelPublished: July 8, 2024

Forget an airliner; this arrow-shaped supersonic car can actually drive at half the speed of the mighty Concorde and now it’s looking for someone with $15 million.

by Sayan Chakravarty

Remember the arrow-shaped Bloodhound LSR car, a record-breaking machine powered by a Eurofighter Typhoon jet engine and a rocket motor? The team behind the…

TravelPublished: June 19, 2024

46 long years after the final Concorde rolled off the assembly line, the world has finally gotten a brand new factory that will build supersonic jets. This time, it’s across the Atlantic in North Carolina.

by Sayan Chakravarty

Boom Supersonic, the American company building the world’s fastest airliner, officially inaugurated its Overture Superfactory a few days back. A ribbon-cutting ceremony was held…

TravelPublished: June 10, 2024

Boom Supersonic’s superfactory, which will be building the ‘son of Concorde,’ will be completed by spring this year. The first assembly line at the North Carolina facility will roll out 33 supersonic aircraft each year, capable of flying passengers from New York to London in 3.5 hours.

by Sayan Chakravarty

2024 is shaping up to be a very important year for Boom Supersonic, which is on a mission to revive supersonic commercial air travel….

TravelPublished: June 4, 2024

A personal Concorde for a time-pressed billionaire, this supersonic private jet has a whisper quiet cabin, an emergency ejection system, and can fly from New York to London by the time its owner binge-watches five episodes of Friends.

by Sayan Chakravarty

NASA recently announced that the X-59 supersonic jet has successfully completed its Flight Readiness Review, marking an important step towards the revolutionary aircraft’s first…