Boom will now shift its attentions toward developing Overture, its supersonic passenger jet.

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Boom Supersonic, the company aiming to create commercial planes that can travel faster than the speed of sound, have ...

US aerospace firm wants to accept passengers by the end of 2029. But what was Concorde, its famous supersonic plane ...

MOJAVE, California: This week, a sleek white jet became the first privately built aircraft to fly faster than sound, soaring high above the Mojave Desert as a crowd watched in excitement. The XB-1, ...

During the second supersonic flight of the XB-1 technology demonstrator today, the jet exceeded Mach 1 three times without a ...

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 ...

Since supersonic Concorde retired in 2003, no commercial passenger jet can fly faster than the speed of sound (1,192 kmph) – unless it rides the jet stream. Today’s passenger jets have a ...

An American civil aircraft broke the sound barrier for the first time in California's Mojave Desert, a US aviation company ...

Boom’s XB-1 reached Mach 1.112, after 10 years of planning and a year of flight tests. Up next: its Overture supersonic ...

Two aviators were safely plucked from San Diego Bay by an alert fishing boat crew after their Navy jet crashed Wednesday in ...

A civilian jet broke the sound barrier for the first time Tuesday ... Existing subsonic airliners fly at between 550 and 600 miles per hour, according to charter company Bitlux.