The Vickers Swallow was decades ahead of its time—but it never left the drawing board. Designed in the 1950s as both a ...

Less than a year from the maiden flight, the first civil supersonic jet made by a private company aims to demonstrate ...

MOJAVE, California—High-speed airliner developer Boom took a major leap toward the development of its Mach 1.7 Overture ...

An aircraft developed by Boom Supersonic became the first independently funded jet to break the sound barrier this week. The XB-1 aircraft accelerated to Mach 1.05 at about 35,000 feet during a test f ...

Ever since the Concorde stopped flying, aviation buffs have dreamed of a civilian supersonic plane. Now there's been a ...

The Overture supersonic aircraft is being designed to carry 65 ... Overture will be powered by four wing-mounted engines that also enable the airliner to cruise just under Mach 1 over land.

Related: Supersonic passenger planes 1 step closer ... a novel plane design has been deemed commercially risky. Blended-wing aircraft, by contrast, can reduce fuel consumption and be quieter ...

NASA/Steve Freeman NASA’s X-59 quiet supersonic research aircraft sits on the ramp at ... an aerodynamic nest of sorts directly behind the wing, and no fewer than three additional horizontal ...

It features a variable-sweep wing design and has a maximum ... The Tupolev Tu-22M is another Soviet-era supersonic long-range strategic bomber inherited by the Russian Federation that remains ...