The Chinese airframer has a way to go in designing a supersonic airliner and has yet to fly a low-boom demonstrator similar ...

China's aviation firm Comac has been enjoying some good news lately, including the ability to announce the C949 supersonic concept and interest from Ryanair. However, the C949 supersonic concept has ...

Beijing knows that it needs to take over commercial aviation. Supersonic flight is key to that.

China’s Comac is aiming to redefine supersonic travel with its C949 airliner, a 1.6-Mach design promising greater range and significantly reduced noise compared to the Concorde. Comac engineers have ...

Innovation in commercial aviation has been stuck for 60 years. A commercial supersonic jet might be back on the market soon, but will China get there first?

The Comac C949 will fly 1.6 times faster than the speed of sound and at a range that is 50 per cent greater than that of retired Concorde, aerodynamicists detailed in an research paper published ...

Comac's C949 jet is being touted as a groundbreaking advancement in aviation technology. Engineers behind the project recently detailed their design's capacity to reach a flight range of 6,800 miles, ...

With sonic booms measured at a perceived level of 83.9 decibels—comparable to a standard hair dryer—Comac engineering teams are working to minimize noise pollution and regulatory hurdles associated ...

The Commercial Aircraft Corporation of China (COMAC), a Chinese state-owned aerospace manufacturing company, is developing the first silent s ...

The first details of C949, a supersonic airliner project, have been quietly unveiled by Chinese state-owned aerospace giant Comac, signalling its ambitions to dominate the skies with the radical ...

China is planning to build a supersonic airliner that can reach Mach 1.6. It is to be designed in such a way that it can fly further than the Concorde. The Chinese supersonic aircraft Comac C949 ...

It is the next step in aviation." The South China Morning Post reported over the weekend that the Chinese state-owned Commercial Aircraft Corporation of China (Comac) is working on a supersonic jet ...