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

More than two decades after Europe’s failed attempt at a supersonic airliner, the USA is on track to make it work. View on ...

Just two supersonic passenger planes have ever entered service - the Russian Tupolev Tu-144 and the venerable Anglo-French Concorde. In total, 20 Concordes were built, although only 14 flew in ...

Denver-based Boom Technology's XB-1 demonstrator plane hit Mach 1.122 — 750 mph. It's the first independently developed ...

The XB-1 has been dubbed the “Son of Concorde,” referencing the supersonic plane that could fly from London to New York in under three hours before it was retired in 2003. The Concorde was ...

Impact Link Boom Supersonic just became the first US commercial ... everyone outside the US will be flying around in Chinese planes, and that's not in the distant future — it's soon." ...

THE 'Son of Concorde' XB-1 jet has successfully reached supersonic speeds today ... By the early noughties, the planes were outdated and expensive to run, despite being incredibly advanced ...

It’s now almost 55 years since the 002 prototype for Concorde first flew at Mach ... CEO Blake Scholl told CNN last year that he expects supersonic planes to replace conventional airliners ...

as its prototype passenger jet broke the sound barrier for the first time during a supersonic test flight. This comes 22 years after Concorde, the British-French supersonic airliner, retired in 2003.