MOJAVE, Calif. (WGHP) — Boom Supersonic broke the sound barrier again Monday, after a successful flight last month. On Feb. 10, Boom Supersonic performed another supersonic flight with its “d… ...

President Trump is boosting supersonic aviation in the US with an executive order directing the FAA to repeal a 1973 rule prohibiting overland supersonic flight, establish new noise standards and ...

While Boom Supersonic boasted about there being no audible sonic boom on the ground, its airliner still isn't allowed to break the sound barrier over the U.S.

Amid efforts to lift a ban on supersonic flight over US soil, plane developer Boom says it’s getting closer to creating Concorde’s successor. But will enough people want to use it?

Boom seeks to revive supersonic commercial travel in America’s skyways. Supersonic travel has one obvious benefit—flying much faster than most jets today—but also has drawbacks, including a ...

Boom Supersonic breaks sound barrier for the first time The XB-1 prototype shows a return to supersonic commercial flights could be on the horizon. Andrew Paul Jan 28, 2025 11:55 AM EST ...

Boom Supersonic's XB-1 demonstrator jet became the first U.S.-made civilian supersonic jet to break the sound barrier. The independently funded XB-1 reached a speed of Mach 1.122, or about 750 mph ...

As an aircraft pushes through the atmosphere at high speeds, it changes the air pressure around it, creating sound waves. And when a supersonic flight surpasses the speed of sound – Mach 1, or ...

NASA and Boom Supersonic released an incredible photo capturing the shock waves of the supersonic XB-1 aircraft while it traveled in front of the sun during a Feb. 10 test flight.

Stricter supersonic regulations in the US have implications for the country competing with China, according to the Boom Supersonic CEO. “I think it’s really, one, it’s soft power, a symbol ...