More than two decades after Europe’s failed attempt at a supersonic airliner, the USA is on track to make it work. View on ...

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

Tuesday morning at Mojave Air & Space Port in California, almost 80 years after U.S. Air Force ace Chuck Yeager first ...

Today a civil test airliner, Boom Technology’s XB-1, broke the sound barrier for the first time in two decades.

THE ‘Son of Concorde’ XB-1 jet has successfully reached supersonic speeds today, breaking the sound barrier for the first ...

Boom’s XB-1 jet breaks sound barrier on first supersonic flight - Boom’s inaugural XB-1 supersonic test flight reached speeds ...

Boom Supersonic hopes the XB-1 will pave the way for the development of Overture, the company's supersonic commercial ...

American company Boom achieved a milestone Tuesday as its XB-1 aircraft exceeded the speed of sound for the first time during a supersonic test flight. The last flight of a supersonic airliner, ...

The single-seat, three-engine jet is the first independently developed plane to exceed Mach 1 in level flight.

Captain Mike Bannister, who flew more Concorde hours than any other pilot, is hopeful about the future of the Boom Supersonic's Overture ...

Boom has said that the Overture will carry 64-80 passengers at Mach 1.7, about twice the speed of today’s subsonic airliners, on over 600 global routes. The 180,000-square-foot “superfactory ...

Almost 22 years after Concorde made its final commercial flights, a prototype passenger jet is attempting to break the sound ...