United Airlines has signed a deal with Boom Supersonic to bring back supersonic commercial air travel. With new materials, ...

I visited Boom Supersonic HQ to see their latest development on the supersonic airplane. I met with the Boom Supersonic ...

Prior to 2003 a transatlantic trip from new york to london could be done in as little as 3 hours, compaired to today's fight ...

Boom Supersonic plans to build the world’s fastest airliner, Overture, and this week announced a breakthrough in the development process. The post Boom Supersonic announces breakthrough in travel at ...

The scaled-down prototype, nicknamed the "Baby Boom", broke the sound barrier for the first time during a test flight over the Mojave Desert in California in late January. The small jet, officially ...

Boom Supersonic independently designed and built the XB-1, the first civil supersonic jet in America. The XB-1's first ...

When planes exceed Mach 1 (the speed of sound, or about 767 miles per hour—1,234 kilometers/hour for those using the metric ...

Despite all these technological advances, a supersonic aircraft still cannot beat physics. Shock waves, and their associated ...

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