Boom Supersonic's XB-1 demonstrator craft could become the first commercial jet to break the sound barrier since Concorde ...

More than two decades after Europe’s failed attempt at a supersonic airliner, the USA is on track to make it work. View on ...

Virgin Galactic rocked the aviation world yesterday with when they announced that they were entering the supersonic race ...

One category: Flying supersonic in planes. Now I'm not a pilot - far from it - but I've broken the sound barrier in no less than seven separate aircraft. If I were chasing Guinness records (I'm ...

Tuesday morning at Mojave Air & Space Port in California, almost 80 years after U.S. Air Force ace Chuck Yeager first eclipsed the sound barrier in a Bell X-1, an independently built jet reached ...

Boom Supersonic passed a major milestone Tuesday on its path to reintroduce supersonic commercial flights. After years of testing and refinement, a pilot flying the aerospace company’s XB-1 ...

Boom Supersonic aims for its future, larger Overture commercial aircraft to be capable of flying at a cruising speed of Mach 1.7, the Denver-based company said. It is supposed to be two times ...

Boom Supersonic, based in Colorado ... In truth, the market had moved on, and a trend for low-cost flying and more efficient aircraft had made Concorde redundant. If you believe the hype ...

Boom Supersonic's XB-1 demonstrator craft could ... much higher altitude and therefore a lower air pressure. By flying so fast, so low in the latest test, the XB-1 achieved a record 383 knots ...

And then there was the flying machine that brought Scholl up short: a British Airways supersonic Concorde, which went into commercial service in 1976 and was permanently mothballed in 2003.

Boom Supersonics XB-1 has become the first independently developed aircraft to reach Mach 11 A test aircraft built by Boom ...