A French enthusiast group borescoped the engines of a Concorde supersonic airliner on display at the Le Bourget Air and Space Museum outside Paris and found them to be in perfect condition internally.

The genius of Astro Mechanica’s engine lies in splitting the fan and compressor components. By mechanically driving the compressor with high-performance electric motors—similar to those used in ...

Boom Technology’s XB-1 test plane. On January 28, 2025, it became the first commercial-type aircraft to fly supersonic since the Concorde in 2003. Today, for the first time since Concorde was retired ...

Passenger planes currently cannot do supersonic speeds, maxing out at Mach 0.8. However, one pioneer in the world of aviation ...