One of the biggest problems facing supersonic aircraft today is the sonic boom issue. Once an airplane goes fast enough, the noise of breaking the sound barrier at best is annoying but, at worse, ...

US aerospace firm wants to accept passengers by the end of 2029. But what was Concorde, its famous supersonic plane ...

Boom hopes its breakthrough will allow supersonic flights over land, making US coast-to-coast flights 90 minutes faster.

SPEEDY flights that blast off faster than the speed of sound look set to return to skies as a US company reveals huge progress on a new Concorde-like service. Boom’s XB-1 jet, dubbed the ...

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 ...

After Boom Supersonic's XB-1 demonstrator went Mach 1, RGN interviewed Mike Bannister, who served as the Chief Pilot of BA's ...

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 Carnegie Mellon University grad is behind the successful flight earlier this week of the first independently developed jet ...

NASA is looking at developing a craft with a softer boom, and Boeing is also working on a prototype for supersonic commercial travel. Any new such service will likely face the same hurdles as Concorde ...