While Concorde is the name that springs to mind in the context of supersonic air travel, there were three contenders locked in the battle to build a commercially successful supersonic transport (SST).

The Boeing 2707 was meant to be America’s answer to Concorde — a supersonic airliner that promised to revolutionize passenger flight. In this video, we trace its ambitious rise, the engineering ...

“It is my judgment that this Government should immediately commence a new program in partnership with private industry to develop at the earliest practical date the prototype of a commercially ...

When Boeing Co. beat out Lockheed Aircraft Corp. for the prize of building the U.S. supersonic jet transport, it was on the basis of a venturesome swing-wing concept that many aeronautical designers ...