American company Boom Supersonic flew faster than the speed of sound with its XB-1 supersonic demonstrator aircraft. It’s now ...

This 34-minute flight, the culmination of 11 previous subsonic ones, took off from Mojave Air and Space Port in California.

A Carnegie Mellon University grad is behind the successful flight earlier this week of the first independently developed jet ...

Passenger air travel as fast as a fighter jet, only much more comfortable - more than 20 years after the last take-off of the legendary Concorde, a ...

Supersonic planes will burn significantly more fuel than current aircraft, resulting in higher emissions of carbon dioxide, ...

While technology has helped to produce cleaner fuels and reduce emissions in many forms of transport, such as electric cars ...

The XB-1 test flight was a unique event that will live on in the history books and has given travelers hope of a return to ...

Boom Supersonic's XB-1 demonstrator marked a milestone by breaking the sound barrier. The company aims to launch supersonic airliners by 2029, dreaming of faster journeys such as a four-hour flight ...

Hundreds of Concorde fans gathered to watch. The plane and the rest of the Air France Concorde aircraft will be retired -- one to an exhibit at Charles de Gaulle Airport and the other four to museums.

An aircraft developed by Boom Supersonic became the first independently funded jet to break the sound barrier this week. The XB-1 aircraft accelerated to Mach 1.05 at about 35,000 feet during a test f ...

After Boom Supersonic's XB-1 demonstrator went Mach 1, RGN interviewed Mike Bannister, who served as the Chief Pilot of BA's ...