Supersonic air travel is great if you want to get somewhere quickly. Indeed, the Concorde could rush you from New York to London in less than three and a half hours, over twice as fast as a ...

Boom Supersonic, a company working to develop passenger aircraft capable of traveling faster than the speed of sound, announced that its planes will be able to fly at supersonic speeds without the ...

If you've been keeping tabs on aviation news as of late, you saw that Boom Supersonic just recently broke the sound barrier with its XB-1 demonstrator aircraft. Oddly enough, no one on the ground ...

Boom Supersonic has completed its XB-1 flight test program at Mojave Air and Space Port in California, closing out a campaign ...

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NASA and Boom Supersonic collaborated to visualize a sonic boom using specialized Schlieren photography, capturing the phenomenon during XB-1 demonstrator flights. Boom's XB-1 aircraft successfully ...

Boom Supersonic aims to reintroduce commercial supersonic travel with its Overture airliner, having successfully demonstrated Mach 1 flight and "boomless cruise" technology with its XB-1 demonstrator.

A small, dart-shaped aircraft screamed across the Mojave Desert in early 2025 at nearly the speed of sound, and the company that built it says the next step is punching through. Boom Supersonic’s XB-1 ...

When the experimental XB-1 aircraft broke the sound barrier three times during its first supersonic flight on 28 January, it did not produce a sonic boom audible from the ground, according to US ...

Revival of supersonic air travel is a subject which has largely been relegated to ‘silly season’ status in the two decades since withdrawal of the BAC-Aerospatiale Concorde fleet. While no supersonic ...

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