Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. When United Airlines announced earlier this month that it had made a deal to purchase 15 airliners still under development from ...

Last week, we delved into the history of supersonic passenger planes — how they were developed, when and where they flew, and ultimately, what killed them. We also enumerated the many challenges ...

After World War II, as early supersonic military aircraft were pushing the boundaries of flight, it seemed like a foregone conclusion that commercial aircraft would eventually fly faster than sound as ...

Fred Finn is, according to the Guinness Book of World Records, the world's most traveled air passenger. The 83-year-old has accumulated more than 15 million miles, and documented each of his many ...

Concorde was the first — and still only — passenger aircraft that had turbojet engines with afterburners. Called “reheat” by the British, raw fuel was introduced into the exhaust of the plane’s four ...

When United Airlines announced earlier this month that it had made a deal to purchase 15 airliners still under development from Denver-based Boom Supersonic, the airline became the latest entity to ...