Researchers tested 700 wing configurations to come up with a biplane design - used by most aircraft in the early years of flying - to reduce the sonic boom that restricted earlier flights of the ...

Qiqi Wang (MIT), Rui Hu (MIT) and Antony Jameson (Stanford) have shown through a computer model that a modified biplane can, in fact, produce significantly less drag than a conventional single-wing ...

A research team has developed a new biplane concept that could cut down sonic booms by half, and potentially reduce fuel consumption as well. A research team has developed a new biplane concept that ...

When the Concorde, pictured, was retired in 2003, it meant the end of supersonic commercial flight. A new biplane design, however, could make supersonic flights a reality again, according to an ...

The supersonic aircraft of the future could look quite different from that of designs past, if the recent findings of one MIT researcher and his colleagues hold true. Assistant professor of ...

Biplanes once ruled the skies in the pioneering days of aviation and World War I. Now the old aircraft design could make a comeback in the silent supersonic jets of tomorrow. A newer version of the ...

Biplanes once ruled the skies in the pioneering days of aviation and World War I. Now the old aircraft design could make a comeback in the silent supersonic jets of tomorrow. A newer version of the ...

Biplanes once ruled the skies in the pioneering days of aviation and World War I. Now the old aircraft design could make a comeback in the silent supersonic jets of tomorrow. A newer version of the ...

A throwback to early 20th Century aviation may hold the key to eliminating the sonic boom - at least according to researchers at MIT and Stanford University. Strongly reminiscent of biplanes still in ...

While everyone certainly seemed to love the idea of Concorde, they definitely didn't like the price that came with flying on one. Massive fuel costs was one of the reasons for its eventual ...