Prior to 2003 a transatlantic trip from new york to london could be done in as little as 3 hours, compaired to today's fight ...

Boom Supersonic independently designed and built the XB-1, the first civil supersonic jet in America. The XB-1's first ...

The scaled-down prototype, nicknamed the "Baby Boom", broke the sound barrier for the first time during a test flight over ...

When planes exceed Mach 1 (the speed of sound, or about 767 miles per hour—1,234 kilometers/hour for those using the metric ...

Despite all these technological advances, a supersonic aircraft still cannot beat physics. Shock waves, and their associated drag, will still exist. So, a single supersonic aircraft will still produce ...

marking an early step in a potential return for supersonic commercial flight. The small aircraft reached a top speed of Mach 1.122 (roughly 750 miles per hour) in a flight over southern California ...

Read more Supersonic flight will see a dramatic ... Concorde in 2003 and spurred many countries to prohibit commercial supersonic aircraft. Since then, aerospace engineers have been trying to ...

The test flight took place in the same Mojave Desert area in California where Charles "Chuck" Yeager first broke the sound ...

In a press release, Boom emphasizes that supersonic aircraft have historically "been the work of nation states, developed by militaries and governments," and it's right. The only supersonic ...

American Airlines and United Airlines have pledged to buy jets from Boom Supersonic. Boom said last year it has orders for 130 aircraft, which include orders and pre-orders. Those commercial ...