When the U.S. looked to build a supersonic airliner, the Lockheed L-2000 came within reach of becoming a commercial mainstay.

While no supersonic airliner programme has been successful – at least economically, technological achievements notwithstanding – the lingering appeal is illustrated by the regular appearance ...

Lockheed SR-71 test pilot Bill Weaver. (Image credit: United States Air Force) Other Early Losses During the 1960s Aircraft number 64-17950 was lost on Jan. 10, 1967 at Edwards Air Force Base (AFB ...

Boom Supersonic promises its Overture airliner will soar over the country using "Boomless Cruise," a feature that relies on Mach cutoff to refract sound waves off the atmosphere so sonic booms don ...

Boom Supersonic, the Colorado startup that aims to assemble passenger jets in North Carolina, celebrated President Donald Trump’s executive order Friday ending a 52-year-old ban on overland ...

Boom, a Colorado-based company, is working on a supersonic airliner, named Boom Overture. Its current prototype, XB-1, is designed to fly at Mach 1.7 while carrying 64 to 80 passengers on board.

The overall cost estimate of the order has jumped to C$27.7 billion ($20.2 billion), almost 50% more than originally anticipated, Canadian Auditor General Karen Hogan said in a report. There will ...

Next, we are scaling up the technology on XB-1 for the Overture supersonic airliner. Our ultimate goal is to bring the benefits of supersonic flight to everyone.” ...

Oracle, Lockheed Martin, Palantir, Coinbase and Amazon have recently donated to America250, the nonprofit raising funds for the nation’s semiquincentennial anniversary, the organization said.