A startup wants to revive the Concorde for the generations of flyers that missed out, without the noisy boom and the up to ...

Boom Supersonic plans to build the world’s fastest airliner, Overture, and this week announced a breakthrough in the ...

There is every indication that supersonic planes are on their way back, more than two decades after Concorde last took to the ...

See Boom Supersonic's "refined" design of the Overture aircraft in this animated explainer. Credit: Boom Supersonic ...

More than 20 years since the final Concorde flight, is a small US start-up now on course to bring back supersonic air travel?

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

Boom Supersonic’s XB-1 creates a sonic boom inaudible from the ground below when flying at the exact right speed and altitude ...

Overture will be the world’s first independently developed supersonic jet and the first civil supersonic jet made in America.

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