Supersonic flight and its visions of high-speed thrills, intense pressure changes, and dramatic sonic booms have persisted across pop culture for decades now. But is it legit? While the idea of ...

To grasp in full the marvel that was the SST, let’s start with Ernst Mach, whose eponymous name plus associated integer number comprise a measure of speed versus the velocity of sound — more precisely ...

Revival of supersonic air travel is a subject which has largely been relegated to ‘silly season’ status in the two decades since withdrawal of the BAC-Aerospatiale Concorde fleet. While no supersonic ...