Prior to 2003 a transatlantic trip from new york to london could be done in as little as 3 hours, compaired to today's fight ...

Boom Supersonic's XB-1 pathfinder vehicle went out in style on Monday (Feb. 10), breaking the sound barrier three times on its 13th and final test flight.

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

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

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

When planes exceed Mach 1 (the speed of sound, or about 767 miles per hour—1,234 kilometers/hour for those using the metric ...

In a viral photo, Trump is seen with a model of Boom Aero's supersonic jet, while Elon Musk's reflection appears in the ...

Despite all these technological advances, a supersonic aircraft still cannot beat physics. Shock waves, and their associated ...

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

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