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 ...

As the first and only supersonic commercial jetliner, Concorde was popular with royals, celebrities, and business executives.

“Concorde seems cute and familiar because it was used for transportation and designed in the 60s, but it was an absolute beast,” Andrei Kucharavy, an aviation expert said, on Quora. “Supercruising at ...

When Chuck Yeager reached Mach 1 on October 14, 1947, the entire frame of his Bell X-1 aircraft suddenly started to shake, and the controls went. A crew observing the flight in a van on the ground ...