Boom Supersonic's Overture aims to revive fast air travel with Mach 1.7 speed, sustainable tech, and major airline backing.

Will passengers ever break the sound barrier again? - Exclusive: Zoom may make life difficult for Boom, the most serious ...

On Tuesday, aviation company Boom Supersonic revealed the design for its highly anticipated Mach 1.7 Overture passenger jet, which touts a speed twice as fast as the standard passenger airline.

Boom, the Denver-based startup company developing what could be the first supersonic airliner since the Concorde, will build a factory at the Piedmont Triad International Airport in Greensboro.

Flying passengers as soon as 2029 will also be tricky, Evans adds, drawing a comparison to the delayed Boeing 777-9, a variant of an existing aircraft and not even an entirely new one, whose ...

The aircraft can allegedly reach Mach 1.7, and the company said it hopes to carry passengers by 2029. Unfortunately, the sonic boom is still an issue for Boom Supersonic's designs and those of ...

Flying passengers as soon as 2029 will also be tricky, Evans adds, drawing a comparison to the delayed Boeing 777-9, a variant of an existing aircraft and not even an entirely new one, whose ...

Boom has not yet tested a supersonic jet in flight, although in October 2020 the company promised it would fly its test XB-1 jet sometime in 2021. Once developed, Overture will send passengers ...

The XB-1 is that demonstrator plane, 60 feet long and dubbed the “Baby Boom.” Developed with some of the $85 million the company has raised so far, it will go just as fast as the proposed ...

Boom Supersonic will pair with Rolls-Royce’s powerful aeronautics group to build the world's fastest supersonic passenger jet. Now that Boom has designed the airframe for its flagship Overture ...

The Concorde, a now-retired supersonic passenger jet, flew at speeds of up to about 1,350 mph (2,180 km/h). Boom also aims to set a new speed record for civil aircraft, according to a blog post by ...

Boom recently raised $33 million in new funding to develop the startup's first supersonic passenger jet. The company will first build the "Baby Boom," a prototype of the eventual full-size Boom ...