China say the C949 could reduce Britain to New York journey time from the usual seven hours to less than half that, making ...

Late last week, American company Boom Supersonic flew faster than the speed of sound with its XB-1 supersonic demonstrator ...

In January 2025, Boom's experimental XB-1 became the first civil supersonic jet made in the United States to break the sound ...

An Inaudible Sonic Boom, Visualized Boom Supersonic’s XB-1 ‘Baby Boom’ has broken the sound barrier six times, but you wouldn’t be able to tell from the ground.

China is making bold moves in the global race for supersonic travel. Comac, the country’s state-owned aircraft manufacturer, has revealed concept designs for ...

NASA's recently-retired SOFIA airborne observatory aircraft, the "flying telescope," also called Plant 42 home. The agency's ...

A concept design of the eventual Boom Overture aircraft. Credit: Boom Supersonic The sound barrier was first broken in 1947 by Chuck Yeager for the US Air Force.

The jet design is reportedly supposed to have a range 50% longer than the Concorde. 3 Boom Supersonic’s XB-1 jet on a test flight on Jan. 28, 2025. Photo by HANDOUT/Boom Supersonic/AFP via Getty ...

Boom Supersonic founder and CEO Blake Scholl poses with a model of the XB-1, the world’s first independently developed supersonic jet aircraft, during the Farnborough International Airshow 2024 ...

On Feb. 10, Boom Supersonic performed another supersonic flight with its “demonstrator aircraft,” the XB-1. On Jan. 28, they performed a successful supersonic test flight, but it was ...

Still, it is likely that there will, eventually, be supersonic passenger jets again. It’s all but unheard of for an advanced technology to just be shelved after decades of successful service.