Boom hopes its breakthrough will allow supersonic flights over land, making US coast-to-coast flights 90 minutes faster.

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

In the early 1970s, sonic boom concerns led the United States government to ban supersonic passenger flight over land ...

Captain Mike Bannister, who flew more Concorde hours than any other pilot, is hopeful about the future of the Boom Supersonic ...

SPEEDY flights that blast off faster than the speed of sound look set to return to skies as a US company reveals huge progress on a new Concorde-like service. Boom’s XB-1 jet, dubbed the ...

Boom Supersonic, the American company building what promises to be the world’s fastest airliner, broke the sound barrier for its first time with a test flight in Mojave, California, on Tuesday.

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 January) ...

According to Boom, United, American and Japan Airlines have all expressed interest in purchasing the Overture ... you're flying above most turbulence," it says. Unlike Concorde, which proved ...

A supersonic jet built by US company Boom has broken the sound barrier for the first time since the Concorde during a test flight.

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.

American Airlines and United Airlines have pledged to buy jets from Boom Supersonic ... Any new such service will likely face ...

The test flight took place in the same Mojave Desert area in California where Charles "Chuck" Yeager first broke the sound ...