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 ...

Supersonic Rebirth Since the beginning of air travel, the industry has always looked at ways to move more people quicker and/or cheaper. When supersonic flight was invented shortly after World War II, ...

See Boom Supersonic's "refined" design of the Overture aircraft in this animated explainer. Credit: Boom Supersonic ...

A Carnegie Mellon University grad is behind the successful flight earlier this week of the first independently developed jet ...

The moment of truth — perhaps destiny — has arrived for Boom Supersonic and its Overture aircraft. The attempt to achieve supersonic flight at Mach 1.1 is scheduled for 10:45 a.m. EST on ...

The company planning to build the world’s fastest airliner at Piedmont Triad International Airport completed the first supersonic flight of its demonstrator aircraft on Tuesday at the Mojave Air & ...

Today’s a day I’ve been looking forward to for more than a decade,” said Blake Scholl, Boom's visionary founder and chief ...

Breaking the sound barrier in a privately developed civil aircraft is a significant aviation milestone by any measure. But as the champagne corks popped and the engines on Boom Supersonic’s XB-1 ...

Boom Supersonic's XB-1 prototype aircraft achieves supersonic speed, surpassing the sound barrier and paving the way for next ...

Will Boom Supersonic fulfill the dream of the Concorde and shuttle people across the sky at up to 60,000 feet? Will enough people pay thousands of dollars for faster flight times? Can Boom meet ...