US aerospace firm wants to accept passengers by the end of 2029. But what was Concorde, its famous supersonic plane ...

Boom Supersonic’s XB-1 has broken the sound barrier, paving the way for faster commercial flights if future tests succeed.

A supersonic Boom Supersonic flight across the United States — beginning potentially as early as 2029 — could be at least 90 ...

XB-1’s supersonic flight, in the same airspace where Chuck Yeager broke the sound barrier, marks the first civil supersonic ...

By way of example, here’s a view from the Concorde cockpit to New York with the nose raised in supersonic ‘cruise’ position. Lowering the nose for taxi, take-off and on landing considerably improved ...

Boom’s XB-1 reached Mach 1.112, after 10 years of planning and a year of flight tests. Up next: its Overture supersonic ...

A sleek white aircraft became the first independently developed jet to break the sound barrier on Tuesday, Jan. 28, tearing through the air tens of thousands of feet above the Mojave Desert and a ...

One of the biggest problems facing supersonic aircraft today is the sonic boom issue. Once an airplane goes fast enough, the noise of breaking the sound barrier at best is annoying but, at worse, ...

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

Boom will now shift its attentions toward developing Overture, its supersonic passenger jet.