While the prospect of commercial supersonic flights is probably at least a decade from becoming a reality due to Boom ...

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

A US company's prototype jet has broken the sound barrier in a demonstration it hopes will pave the way for a successor to the Concorde. Boom Supersonic's XB-1 is the first civilian aircraft to ...

Boom Supersonic has achieved the first supersonic flight of its X-B1 demonstrator aircraft, heralding a major step forward in the development of its Concorde-like Overture plane. Tuesday’s XB-1 ...

Boom’s test plane is named after Mr Yeager’s iconic aircraft, the Bell X-1. Former Concorde chief pilot Mike Bannister, who looked on as the test flight took off, said it was “absolutely ...

Boom Supersonic, based in Colorado, is developing the world’s first supersonic passenger aircraft since the demise of Concorde. While the full-size aircraft is still a few years away ...

(Seats on the 1,300 mph Concorde plane, retired in 2003, were too expensive for most passengers, at some five times the cost of flying on a 747, which is largely why the plane commercially failed.

The company’s XB-1 demonstrator aircraft’s supersonic flight is the ... It’s now almost 55 years since the 002 prototype for Concorde first flew at Mach 1 on March 25, 1970, and more than ...

The hotly anticipated plane already has 130 orders and pre-orders from American Airlines, United Airlines and Japan Airlines. It’s now almost 55 years since the 002 prototype for Concorde first ...

Almost 22 years after Concorde made its final commercial flights, a prototype passenger jet is attempting to break the sound barrier – and its first supersonic test flight takes off today (28 ...