A supersonic Boom Supersonic flight across the United States — beginning potentially as early as 2029 — could be at least 90 ...

While supersonic flight over land is not currently permitted, Scholl hopes that will change. "Currently, all civil aircraft flights are prohibited from operating above Mach one speeds over land ...

An aircraft flies transonic when it reaches the range of speeds just below supersonic, which is Mach 1.” Just over two weeks after that near-supersonic flight, Boom took off for its 12th flight ...

A small prototype jet has broken the sound barrier, making it a possible successor to Concorde more than two decades after the iconic aircraft disappeared from our skies. The test flight might ...

Sonic booms over land are so disruptive that they contributed to the retirement of fabled commercial airliner Concorde in 2003 and spurred many countries to prohibit commercial supersonic aircraft.

Achieving supersonic flight over land may be within the reach of Boom ... typically an altitude of 35,000 to 36,000 feet, the sound waves flow to a “cutoff altitude” before curling upward ...

Aerospace startup Boom says they've proven quiet supersonic flight is possible with their passenger airplanes after a successful second test flight. CES 2025 President and tech giant Ad Meter ...

During the second supersonic flight of the XB-1 technology demonstrator today, the jet exceeded Mach 1 three times without a boom being detected by microphones on the desert floor below.