Boom Supersonic, the American company building what promises to be the world’s fastest airliner, broke the sound barrier for its first time with a test flight in Mojave, California, on Tuesday.

A startup wants to revive the Concorde for the generations of flyers that missed out, without the noisy boom and the up to ...

Boom Supersonic CEO Blake Scholl said the Mach 1.7 Overture will keep the US aviation industry ahead of China in the ...

Almost 22 years after Concorde made its final commercial flights, a prototype passenger jet has broken the sound barrier during a supersonic test flight. Boom Supersonic’s XB-1 aircraft climbed over ...

The scaled-down prototype, nicknamed the "Baby Boom", broke the sound barrier for the first time during a test flight over ...

Boom expects the airlines to be profitable at about $5,000 USD a seat, which of course is a high price tag, and the company may find it hard to fill its plane seats with those who are willing to pay ...

President Donald Trump might be getting a new, faster jet... but people are more bothered about who's lurking behind him in ...

Boom Technology’s XB-1 test plane. On January 28, 2025, it became the first commercial-type aircraft to fly supersonic since the Concorde in 2003. Today, for the first time since Concorde was ...

Boom Supersonic independently designed and built the XB-1, the first civil supersonic jet in America. The XB-1's first ...

The XB-1 test craft has been used to prove new technologies developed by Boom Supersonic. Like Concorde, the XB-1 and Overture both have a long nose and a high angle of attack for takeoff and ...

While Concorde dealt with this by having a moveable droop nose, Boom’s augmented reality vision system enables excellent runway visibility for the pilots without that extra weight and complexity.

You can't be a top pilot without a cool nickname. Meet Tristan “Geppetto” Brandenburg. - BOOM It’s now almost 55 years since the 002 prototype for Concorde first flew at Mach 1 on March 25, 1970, and ...