A potential successor to Concorde made progress this week as US company Boom Supersonic’s XB-1 prototype aircraft broke the sound barrier on Tuesday – the first time a civilian plane has done ...

Last week, American company Boom Supersonic flew faster than ... flights principally over the water. The Concorde was also a very loud plane at takeoff, since it needed a lot of thrust to leave ...

A private company aiming to build the first supersonic airliner since the Concorde retired more than two decades ago achieved its first sound-barrier-busting flight over California's Mojave desert on ...

The plane will be the first civil aircraft to break the sound barrier since Concorde should its flight be successful. We can hear audio from Boom Supersonic’s pilot as it makes final checks ...

The Concorde was also a very loud plane at take off, since it needed a lot of thrust to leave the ground. A future for supersonic travel relies on solving some or all of the issues Concorde faced.

SON of Concorde' XB-1 jet is "on track" to break the sound barrier in early 2025, makers of the supersonic plane have announced. In its first major update of the year, bosses at Colorado-based ...

Heralded as a "new Concorde," Boom Supersonic's XB-1 is the first privately developed plane to break that barrier. The Denver-based startup already has orders from airlines including American and ...

Boom Supersonic plans to build a supersonic airliner called ... non-military aircraft to break the sound barrier since the Concorde was retired from service in 2003. It’s the first step in ...