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

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

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

See Boom Supersonic's "refined" design of the Overture aircraft in this animated explainer. Credit: Boom Supersonic ...

This week, a sleek white jet became the first privately built aircraft to fly faster than sound, soaring high above the Mojave Desert as a crowd watched in excitement The XB-1, developed by Boom ...

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

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 ...

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