When I say American Concorde, you think of the Boeing 2707. But another design almost won the government contract, the ...

While the prospect of commercial supersonic flights is probably at least a decade from becoming a reality due to Boom ...

A prototype of a passenger jet meant to succeed Concorde will attempt to break the sound barrier for the first time on ...

If successful, it could pave the way for the first US-built commercial supersonic jet to enter the market, reigniting the ...

The single-seat jet, a 201-foot-long test model by Boom Supersonic, hit 844 mph just 12 minutes into its latest test flight ...

Boom Supersonic CEO Blake Scholl said the Mach 1.7 Overture will keep the US aviation industry ahead of China in the ...

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

Boom Supersonic’s XB-1 aircraft has become the first independently developed jet to break the sound barrier, bringing ...

Boom is the first independent company ever to design, build and fly a supersonic aircraft, but the last craft to ever hit the speed since Concorde was retired in 2003. The supersonic flight was ...

Boom Supersonic’s XB-1 jet broke ... s ambition to design a supersonic passenger plane capable of reaching Mach 1.7, or 1,304 mph. The XB-1 has been dubbed the “Son of Concorde,” referencing ...

Like Concorde, the XB-1 and Overture both ... But Boom has perfected its aircraft’s efficient, aerodynamic design using computational fluid dynamics, which “is basically a digital wind tunnel.