The B-58 Hustler was to be America's next generation of bomber aircraft - But convair saw beyond the military applications ...

Boom expects the airlines to be profitable at about $5,000 USD a seat, which of course is a high price tag, and the company ...

Boom Supersonic, the American company building what promises to be the world’s fastest airliner, broke the sound barrier for ...

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

In the second in our Aviation Symposium series of blog posts, we present the materials from the great panel we had discussing the criminalization ...

Boom Supersonic CEO Blake Scholl said the Mach 1.7 Overture will keep the US aviation industry ahead of China in the ...

The scaled-down prototype, nicknamed the "Baby Boom", broke the sound barrier for the first time during a test flight over ...

American company Boom achieved a milestone Tuesday as its XB-1 aircraft exceeded the speed of sound for the first time during a supersonic test flight. The last flight of a supersonic airliner, ...

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

Concorde remains the most renowned aircraft ever, more than 50 years since it was built. Its first flight was from Toulouse, France, on March 2, 1969. The prototype Concorde 001, piloted by André ...

Despite all these technological advances, a supersonic aircraft still cannot beat physics. Shock waves, and their associated drag, will still exist. So, a single supersonic aircraft will still produce ...