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

Boom Supersonic’s XB-1 aircraft broke the sound barrier during three test runs, a step toward the possible return of ...

"With Ukrainian pilots trained for several months in France on board, they will now participate in defending Ukraine's sky," ...

It's now the first piloted non-military aircraft to break the sound barrier since the Concorde was retired from service in 2003. It's the first step in Boom's ambitious goal to have supersonic ...

A laboratory in South China has completed ground testing of an artificial intelligence-powered turbine engine that can reach ...

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

The Boom XB-1 civil supersonic aircraft has broken the sound barrier for the first time. Boom Supersonic is already planning ...

The aircraft will top supersonic speeds during a livestream ... Only the original Concorde passengers and military fast jet pilots have travelled at such speeds - though companies like Boom ...

Such speeds have since become routine for many military aircraft. But supersonic travel hasn’t been on offer to airline passengers for some two decades. That is, since the Anglo-French Concorde ...

The only aircraft currently able to reach supersonic speeds are military fighter jets and bombers. Although the fabled commercial airliner Concorde made transatlantic flights for several decades ...

File photo. Boom Supersonic plans to build a supersonic airliner called Overture that could travel from New York to Rome in just four hours and 40 minutes, instead of eight hours. (Boom Supersonic ...

Late last week, American company Boom Supersonic flew faster than the speed of sound with its XB-1 supersonic demonstrator aircraft. It’s now the first piloted non-military aircraft to break the ...