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

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The return of supersonic travel has been remarkably slow for something faster than the speed of sound, but a major milestone ...

The Colorado-based company is aiming to build a Concorde-like supersonic aircraft—but has hurdles to clear before realizing ...

Boom Supersonic's XB-1 demonstrator marked a milestone by breaking the sound barrier. The company aims to launch supersonic airliners by 2029, dreaming of faster journeys such as a four-hour flight ...

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

Boom Supersonic's XB-1 jet just broke the sound barrier. Achieving Mach 1.112 is a milestone for the aerospace brand, which ...

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 & ...

An aircraft developed by Boom Supersonic has become the first independently funded jet to break the sound barrier.

Tuesday morning at Mojave Air & Space Port in California, almost 80 years after U.S. Air Force ace Chuck Yeager first ...

Chris James receives funding from the Australian Research Council, the Commonwealth Defence Science and Technology Group (DSTG), and the US Office of Naval Research. Late last week, American ...