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

And yet, knowing what I know about the climate, the promise of a return to supersonic flight is a little tarnished. We’re in ...

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

American company Boom Supersonic just broke the sound barrier with a civilian plane. What exactly is supersonic travel, and ...

Three FA-50PH jet fighter aircraft from the Philippine Air Force (PAF) and two B-1 "Lancer" supersonic variable-sweep heavy ...

Now, one of them is determined to go further: making a superfast suborbital airliner ... Despite the ultrafast speed, Deng said passengers on such supersonic aircraft will be completely safe from ...

A supersonic jet built by US company Boom has broken the sound barrier for the first time since the Concorde during a test ...

Boom Supersonic made history today (Jan. 28) when its XB-1 jet broke the sound barrier for the first time. Boom Supersonic's ...

Boom Supersonic passed a major milestone Tuesday on its path to reintroduce supersonic commercial flights. After years of ...

A 'new Concorde' has broken the sound barrier - the Boom XB-1 test plane was launched from California's Mojave Air and Space ...

The XB-1 demonstrator has broken the speed of sound, hitting Mach 1.1. It is the first civil supersonic aircraft in US history and the first to do so since Concorde was retired in 2003. That was an ...

The XB-1 prototype accelerated smoothly to reach as fast as Mach 1.11 at about 35,000 feet at 11:33 a.m., 11:38 a.m. and ...