Boom Supersonic, the American company building what promises to be the world’s fastest airliner, broke the sound barrier for ...

Commercial supersonic flight ended with the Concorde's discontinuation, but Boom Technology is preparing pilots for a possible supersonic resurgence.

My title, sadly, was, "One Giant Leap Backward For Mankind,” as no other commercial airline had a supersonic replacement for Concorde. LONDON - OCTOBER 23, 2003: A British Airways Concorde lifts ...

A private company aiming to build the first supersonic airliner since the Concorde retired more than two decades ago achieved its first sound-barrier-busting flight over California's Mojave desert on ...

This 34-minute flight, the culmination of 11 previous subsonic ones, took off from Mojave Air and Space Port in California.

The XB-1 is a pint-sized testbed for the Overture: a next-generation supersonic airliner developed by ambitious US startup Boom. “XB-1’s supersonic flight demonstrates that the technology for ...

Boom’s putative Concorde replacement, Overture, which is intended to carry 64-80 passengers (Concorde carried 100), has not yet been built. But on January 28th XB-1, a one-third-scale ...