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

The Concorde passenger jet never really took off, ceasing operation after just a couple of decades due to high operating ...

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

The single-seat jet, a 201-foot-long test model by Boom Supersonic, hit 844 mph just 12 minutes into its latest test flight ...

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

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

The aircraft catching the most interest is the Overture, a commercial style plane designed to carry up to 80 passengers with ...

Denver-based Boom Technology's XB-1 demonstrator plane hit Mach 1.122 — 750 mph. It's the first independently developed ...

Boom Supersonic’s XB-1 aircraft has become the first independently developed jet to break the sound barrier, bringing ...

invigorating the company’s ambition to design a supersonic passenger plane capable of reaching Mach 1.7, or 1,304 mph. The XB-1 has been dubbed the “Son of Concorde,” referencing the ...

A supersonic jet nicknamed the 'Son of the Concorde' has officially traveled ... for the full production model Overture that will take passengers from New York City to London in three hours ...

A Chinese start-up unveils Cuantianhou, a hypersonic drone reaching Mach 4, aiming to adapt military tech for supersonic ...