The world’s most glamorous aircraft was cruising at a thrilling 1315 mph, with the curvature of the Earth visible to those who cared enough ...

Boom Supersonic independently designed and built the XB-1, the first civil supersonic jet in America. The XB-1's first ...

Despite all these technological advances, a supersonic aircraft still cannot beat physics. Shock waves, and their associated drag, will still exist. So, a single supersonic aircraft will still produce ...

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Overture will be the world’s first independently developed supersonic jet and the first civil supersonic jet made in America.

TRUMP has shown off designs for the “Son of Concorde” supersonic jet, as the firm behind it readies to run ultra-fast flights ...

A startup wants to revive the Concorde for the generations of flyers that missed out, without the noisy boom and the up to ...

Two weeks ago, Boom Supersonic’s XB-1 demonstrator plane made history when it broke the sound barrier over the continental ...

Supersonic commercial air travel is becoming feasible as Boom Supersonic's XB-1 successfully broke the sound barrier.

"XB-1 broke the sound barrier three times during its first supersonic ... haven't quite been quite right yet. Aircraft like the Concorde, for example, relied on brute force in its turbojet engines ...

Boom Supersonic has completed a test flight of a civil aircraft, breaking the sound barrier three times. The XB-1 prototype is part of the development of a hypersonic aircraft called Overture.

The scaled-down prototype, nicknamed the "Baby Boom", broke the sound barrier for the first time during a test flight over ...