Conceptual drawing of a supersonic biplane.(Image: Christine Daniloff/MIT News based on an original drawing courtesy of Obayashi laboratory, Tohoku University) Almost a decade after the only supersonic passenger airliner retired from active service, a group of researchers at MIT stumbled ...

For the first time the gigantic Airbus A380, also known as the Superjumbo, landed in the U.S. The Superjumbo is the largest airliner in the world capable of carrying up to 853 passengers (555 people in the standard three-class configuration). ...