Boom Supersonic, the American company building what promises to be the world’s fastest airliner, broke the sound barrier for ...

During the second supersonic flight of the XB-1 technology demonstrator today, the jet exceeded Mach 1 three times without a ...

A supersonic Boom Supersonic flight across the United States — beginning potentially as early as 2029 — could be at least 90 ...

When the experimental XB-1 aircraft achieved supersonic speeds on a test flight, it did not create a disruptive sonic boom – ...

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

The aircraft catching the most interest is the Overture, a commercial style plane designed to carry up to 80 passengers with a range of 7,800km. Overture has the potential to revolutionise air travel ...

Like Concorde, the XB-1 and Overture both have ... Construction was completed last year on Boom’s Overture Superfactory in Greensboro, North Carolina. It’s been designed to scale to produce ...

Scholl said future Overture versions are planned to fly Mach-speed over land by eliminating the sonic boom. He said another significant change from the Concorde will be ticket price, which will be ...

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