supersonic flight Archives - aviospace.org https://aviospace.org/tag/supersonic-flight/ Thu, 17 Sep 2026 13:31:20 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.1.4 https://aviospace.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/09/463575282_2477404082464408_3209599391009761950_n-150x150.jpg supersonic flight Archives - aviospace.org https://aviospace.org/tag/supersonic-flight/ 32 32 Concorde’s Longest Flights: Routes, Records, and the Limits of Supersonic Travel https://aviospace.org/concorde-longest-flights/ https://aviospace.org/concorde-longest-flights/#respond Tue, 27 Jan 2026 09:14:34 +0000 https://aviospace.org/?p=12236 The Concorde, the second supersonic airliner, established aviation benchmarks such as the speed of Mach 2.34 that remain unmatched for a commercial aircraft decades after its retirement. The debate over the longest Concorde flight encompasses two distinct milestones: the farthest regular commercial routing the aircraft ever completed and a unique scientific mission in 1973 that […]

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]]> https://aviospace.org/concorde-longest-flights/feed/ 0 Concorde’s Top Speed: A look at the safest supersonic airliner’s pace https://aviospace.org/concordes-top-speed-supersonic-airliners/ https://aviospace.org/concordes-top-speed-supersonic-airliners/#respond Sat, 09 Aug 2025 10:06:49 +0000 https://aviospace.org/?p=9622 When the former Air France chairman, Jean-Cyril Spinetta, said, “Concorde will never really stop flying because she will live on in people’s imagination”, it encapsulated everyone’s feelings. Apart from hardcore environmentalists who have maintained that an aviation world full of Concordes would simply ruin the planet (for the aircraft was a gas guzzler)[zero carbon flight […]

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]]> https://aviospace.org/concordes-top-speed-supersonic-airliners/feed/ 0 Tupolev Tu-144 – The Soviet Concorde: Why the Supersonic Jet Failed? https://aviospace.org/tupolev-tu-144-soviet-concorde-failure-story/ https://aviospace.org/tupolev-tu-144-soviet-concorde-failure-story/#comments Sat, 26 Jul 2025 12:37:47 +0000 https://aviospace.org/?p=9446 The name is Tupolev Tu-144. In Russian, you’d call it Туполев Ту-144. The NATO reporting name for the Tu-144 is “Charger”. You might have other labels thrown at it: Concordski or the communist Concorde. For NASA, it was “a supersonic flying laboratory”. Given that the Tupolev Tu-144 was the first supersonic airliner to take to […]

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]]> https://aviospace.org/tupolev-tu-144-soviet-concorde-failure-story/feed/ 1 From 10 km/h to Mach 2.15: How Commercial Aircraft Speeds Have Changed https://aviospace.org/commercial-aircraft-speed-evolution/ https://aviospace.org/commercial-aircraft-speed-evolution/#respond Wed, 27 Mar 2024 11:16:28 +0000 https://aviospace.org/?p=3922 It has been just over a century since passengers have been able to fly commercially. During this time, we have seen giants such as the Airbus A380, which has the capacity to transport more than 850 passengers and set a record for being the biggest commercial aircraft ever. Aircraft like the A380 necessitate a different […]

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