She’s credited with inventing the astrolabe – a brass instrument used to establish ... flight in North Carolina before presenting their aircraft to the press five years later in 1908.

She’s credited with inventing the astrolabe – a brass instrument used to establish latitude and time ... first-ever sustained flight in North Carolina before presenting their aircraft to the press ...

IT ALL began with a tennis dinner. The year was 1981, and 47-year-old Captain Brian Walpole was flying high. As one of the ...

and to stickybeak at the various dials, gauges and instruments, including the all-important Machmeter ... By way of example, here’s a view from the Concorde cockpit to New York with the nose raised in ...

All-electric Rolls-Royce Spectre Black Badge deploys 659hp. Spectre Black Badge is the most powerful Rolls-Royce ever - ...

THE 'Son of Concorde' XB-1 jet is set to take off on ... first US-built commercial supersonic jet to hit the market. The aircraft will top supersonic speeds during a livestream at 6:45am PST ...

Concorde remains the most renowned aircraft ever, more than 50 years since it was built. Its first flight was from Toulouse, France, on March 2, 1969. The prototype Concorde 001, piloted by André ...

An icon in the shape of a lightning bolt. Impact Link A startup wants to revive the era of the supersonic Concorde for the generations of flyers that missed out — but without the noisy boom and ...

There have been no commercial aircraft capable of supersonic flight since the Concorde - which is why airspace is so limited. The only aircraft to have reached those speeds have either been ...

An Overture “Superfactory” in North Carolina was completed in June 2024 and plans to produce 33 of the supersonic aircraft annually. Former chief Concorde pilot for British Airways ...

A US company's prototype jet has broken the sound barrier in a demonstration it hopes will pave the way for a successor to the Concorde. Boom Supersonic's XB-1 is the first civilian aircraft to ...

Boom’s test plane is named after Mr Yeager’s iconic aircraft, the Bell X-1. Former Concorde chief pilot Mike Bannister, who looked on as the test flight took off, said it was “absolutely ...