The first dreams of supersonic air travel were crushed by annoyed Oklahoma City residents in the 1960s. Decades later, it ...

AI-generated summary reviewed by our newsroom. Read our AI Policy. Trump ended a 52-year ban on overland supersonic flight via executive order. Boom Supersonic plans to begin jet production at its ...

Supersonic flight is making a comeback—but with a whisper, not a bang. The Spike S-512 promises to cruise faster than sound while avoiding the disruptive sonic boom that grounded its predecessors.

Boom is investing about $500 million to build Overture, a commercial supersonic jet, in Greensboro and, in January 2023, signed a lease and broke ground on a 62-acre site where its so-called ...

Boom Supersonic CEO Blake Scholl wants to bring back flights that break the sound barrier. Now he just needs to figure out whether airlines and travelers will buy in.

Collier County could have been home to the Everglades Jetport, the world's largest airport of the future, until ...

Boom boasts that XB-1 is the first privately developed jet to break the sound barrier. (Privately developed rocket planes, like Burt Rutan’s SpaceShipOne , did so previously.) ...

JetZero joins Boom Supersonic in planning Greensboro, North Carolina factory, promising thousands of jobs to disrupt Boeing and Airbus passenger airplane duopoly ...

“Data collected during XB-1’s multiple supersonic runs allowed Boom to validate sonic boom models and improve the algorithms that predict operating in Mach cut-off,” says the company.

Gov. Roy Cooper (left) greets North Carolina Senate President Phil Berger after they helped cut the ceremonial ribbon on Boom Supersonic’s jet factory at the Piedmont Triad International Airport ...

The U.S. President Donald J. Trump signed legislation that lifted the previous ban on supersonic flight over land on June 6, 2025.