The company claimed the aircraft would cut the travel time from New York to Rome to just four hours and 40 minutes, half the ...

More than 20 years since the final Concorde flight, is a small US start-up now on course to bring back supersonic air travel?

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

The bullet-shaped machine shot past them at a speed they could never have believed possible, leaving just a scent of soot and ...

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, ...

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

In this video, we will look at a supersonic jet that doesn't go very fast... but perhaps that's the key factor that will make ...

Boom Supersonic ... the U varies—with the aircraft speed, with atmospheric temperature gradient, and with winds. So making this work requires tech not available in Concorde's era," he indicated ...

On Feb. 10, Boom Supersonic performed another supersonic flight with its “demonstrator aircraft,” the XB-1. On Jan. 28, they performed a successful supersonic test flight, but it was ...

SIMON Davis strapped in his seatbelt, pushed forward the joystick in front of him, and blasted his ‘flying taxi’ straight up into the air. It might sound like a scene from futuristic ...

The Intrepid Museum’s Concorde Tour lets you step inside the supersonic jet to not only learn more about the technological innovations which made this extraordinary aircraft a part of history, but to ...

Concorde, the first supersonic passenger-carrying commercial airplane, was built jointly by aircraft manufacturers in the United Kingdom and France. It was first flown in 1969 and was put into ...