The legendary Concorde and the Soviet Tu‑144 were both capable of cruising at roughly twice the speed of sound, making for dramatically fast flight times. Boom’s Overture is designed for a slower ...

Of all the factors that killed off Concorde more than two decades ago, it was the jet’s thunderclap-loud sonic boom that ...

A newly released image shows the sound barrier being broken on February 10 as Boom Supersonic’s XB-1, America’s first civil ...

The Boom Supersonic XB-1 (pictured ... haven't quite been quite right yet. Aircraft like the Concorde, for example, relied on brute force in its turbojet engines, afterburning its way to Mach ...

US aerospace firm Boom Supersonic is expecting to reach ... and expects to reach design freeze on the Symphony engines for the aircraft in March. Scholl says the company is aiming to achieve ...

When the experimental XB-1 aircraft broke the sound barrier three times during its first supersonic flight on 28 January, it did not produce a sonic boom audible from the ground, according to US ...

NASA teams on the ground used Schlieren photography to capture the shock waves around Boom Supersonic’s demonstrator aircraft XB-1 ... by conventional jet engines and to run on up to 100% ...

Boom Supersonic passed a major milestone last month when its XB-1 prototype became the first civil aircraft to break the ... While the plane’s engines were still audible on the ground ...

There are considerable efforts to align supersonic aircraft development with the aviation industry’s environmental ambitions. For instance, the new engines designed by Boom Supersonic are ...

Supersonic passenger jet startup says quiet supersonic flight within reach, which would be a major breakthrough for the Denver startup that will build its jets in Greensboro. The lack of a sonic ...

This means their emissions tend to remain in the atmosphere for longer. There are considerable efforts to align supersonic aircraft development with the aviation industry’s environmental ambitions.