American company Boom Supersonic just broke the sound barrier with a civilian plane. What exactly is supersonic travel, and ...

Supersonic planes will burn significantly more fuel than current aircraft, resulting in higher emissions of carbon dioxide, ...

This 34-minute flight, the culmination of 11 previous subsonic ones, took off from Mojave Air and Space Port in California.

A Carnegie Mellon University grad is behind the successful flight earlier this week of the first independently developed jet ...

This is the value proposition of supersonic passenger travel ... flights principally over the water. The Concorde was also a very loud plane at take off, since it needed a lot of thrust to ...

Boom Supersonic's XB-1 supersonic demonstrator aircraft during its 11th ... Eduard Marmet , CC BY-SA Why supersonic passenger flight didn't take off Concorde was designed in the 1960s when it ...

An aircraft developed by Boom Supersonic became the first independently funded jet to break the sound barrier this week. The XB-1 aircraft accelerated to Mach 1.05 at about 35,000 feet during a test f ...

The aircraft catching the most interest is the Overture, a commercial style plane designed to carry up to 80 passengers with a range of 7,800km. Overture has the potential to revolutionise air travel ...

After Boom Supersonic's XB-1 demonstrator went Mach 1, RGN interviewed Mike Bannister, who served as the Chief Pilot of BA's ...