American company Boom Supersonic just broke the sound barrier with a civilian plane. What exactly is supersonic travel, and ...

The scaled-down prototype, nicknamed the "Baby Boom", broke the sound barrier for the first time during a test flight over ...

Two weeks ago, Boom Supersonic’s XB-1 demonstrator plane made history when it broke the sound barrier over the continental ...

For efficiency reasons, most passenger jets cruise slightly slower than the ... There was the little-known Russian Tupolev-144 and Concorde, a Franco-British supersonic airliner operated by ...

Widely regarded as the gold standard of aviation engineering, the Concorde could cruise across the Atlantic at twice the speed of sound and carry up to 128 passengers. During its heyday, the jet's ...

Concorde remains the most renowned aircraft ever ... This devastating incident had a lasting impact on the public's confidence in the aircraft. In the aftermath, passenger numbers steadily declined, ...

Boom Supersonic's XB-1 prototype is the first civilian aircraft to break the sound barrier since Concorde ... that the market for supersonic passenger jets could be "easily over 1,000 aircraft".