American company Boom Supersonic just broke the sound barrier with a civilian plane. What exactly is supersonic travel, and ...

Boom Supersonic CEO Blake Scholl said the Mach 1.7 Overture will keep the US aviation industry ahead of China in the ...

The Colorado-based company is aiming to build a Concorde-like supersonic aircraft—but has hurdles to clear before realizing ...

Boom Supersonic, the American company building what promises to be the world’s fastest airliner, broke the sound barrier for ...

Instead, the Boeing 747 entered commercial service in 1970. Cheap, large and efficient airliners like it blew Concorde out of the water. Designed to cruise efficiently at supersonic speeds ...

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The only good news in Boeing’s fourth-quarter and annual result was that the B777X programme was back with flight testing and ...

File photo. Boom Supersonic plans to build a supersonic airliner called Overture that could travel from New York to Rome in just four hours and 40 minutes, instead of eight hours. (Boom Supersonic ...

The company's CEO says the US aviation market is being held back by Boeing. Boom Supersonic just became the first US commercial planemaker to ... That's about twice the speed of current airliners.

Flown by Boom Supersonic’s chief test pilot, Tristan “Geppetto” Brandenburg, the aircraft called XB-1 reached an altitude of 35,290 feet before accelerating to Mach 1.122, or 750 mph, Boom ...

The content is produced solely by The Conversation. Last week, American company Boom Supersonic flew faster than the speed of sound with its XB-1 supersonic demonstrator aircraft. It’s now the first ...