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

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

The single-seat jet, a 201-foot-long test model by Boom Supersonic, hit 844 mph just 12 minutes into its latest test flight ...

SON of Concorde' XB-1 jet is "on track ... and vice versa." At supersonic speeds, the XB-1 jet could feasibly fly passengers from London to New York City in just 3.5 hours. The flight currently ...

Imagine flying from New York to Los Angeles in just two hours—a dream that has lingered in the minds of travel enthusiasts ...

A supersonic passenger jet dubbed the ‘New Concorde’ travelled faster than the speed of sound for the first time during a ...

Boom Supersonic's XB-1 demonstrator craft could become the first commercial jet to break the sound barrier since Concorde ...

It’s now the first piloted non-military aircraft to break the sound barrier since the Concorde was retired from service in 2003. It’s the first step in Boom’s ambitious goal to have supersonic ...