Similar to a delta wing, the Soviet-developed Tu-144 incorporated special retractable foreplanes (canards) to improve lift ...

During the second supersonic flight of the XB-1 technology demonstrator today, the jet exceeded Mach 1 three times without a boom being detected by microphones on the desert floor below.

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

Impact Link A startup wants to revive the era of the supersonic Concorde for the generations of flyers that missed out — but without the noisy boom and expensive ... Concorde's Mach 2.04.

Boom Supersonic announced Monday that its airliner ... "Boomless Cruise requires engines powerful enough to break the sound barrier at an altitude high enough that the boom has enough altitude ...

If you've been keeping tabs on aviation news as of late, you saw that Boom Supersonic ... upwards of Mach 2 (right around 1,354 mph or 2,180 km/h). The trouble is, supersonic flight means sonic ...

Supersonic passenger ... any given moment and route, but Boom is developing software and procedures to help pilots reach it. It also helps to be developing engines powerful enough to reach the ...

Boom Supersonic's XB-1 jet went out in style on ... in just a week or so and to do the same with the jet's Symphony engines next month, he added. "Our goal is to be making thrust on those engines ...

Denver-based Boom Supersonic ... is designed to fit a supersonic airliner perfectly." He added that Symphony won't need the afterburners that are common in supersonic engines.