While the prospect of commercial supersonic flights is probably at least a decade from becoming a reality due to Boom ...

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

NASA is looking at developing a craft with a softer boom, and Boeing is also working on a prototype for supersonic commercial travel. Any new such service will likely face the same hurdles as Concorde ...

It happened, folks. On Tuesday, Boom Supersonic’s XB-1 jet — colloquially known as “Son of Concorde,” a reference to the ...

The XB-1 breakthrough is seen as a major advancement in the development of Boom’s commercial passenger aircraft, the Overture ...

The aircraft catching the most interest is the Overture, a commercial style plane designed to carry up to 80 passengers with ...

The Overture has the potential to revolutionise air travel thanks to its top speed of Mach 1.7 (around 2,100 km/h), nearly twice as fast as current commercial jets. Overture will run entirely on ...

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