More than 20 years since the final Concorde flight, is a small US start-up now on course to bring back supersonic air travel?

Supersonic commercial air travel is becoming feasible as Boom Supersonic's XB-1 successfully broke the sound barrier.

If you've been keeping tabs on aviation news as of late, you saw that Boom Supersonic just recently broke the sound barrier ...

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

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

The XB-1 broke the sound barrier three times during its 13th and final test flight, which lifted off Monday from the Mojave ...

Supersonic planes will burn significantly more fuel than current aircraft, resulting in higher emissions of carbon dioxide, ...

Updated on 04/13/2021: Hello. First off why is it absolutely impossible to get ahold of anyone at Concorde College? Second, thank you for not helping me find a job and putting me into financial ruin.

The XB-1 aircraft accelerated to Mach 1.05 within about 11 minutes of taking off, according to Boom Supersonic and live video of the test flight.

Concorde's successor is well on the way ... It did so 3 times this Tuesday, January 28, 2025, over the Mojave Desert in California (USA) at an altitude of 35,290 feet (10,700 m). Twice as fast This ...

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