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

For some, Ivanpah now stands as a huge, shiny monument to wasted tax dollars and environmental damage. For others, failures ...

American firm Boom Supersonic’s XB-1 has once again reached supersonic speeds without producing an audible boom, following its milestone flight on January 28 this year. The aircraft is the first ...

If you've been keeping tabs on aviation news as of late, you saw that Boom Supersonic just recently ... 1.122 during its test flight over the Mojave Desert in California. No other independently ...

But Boom CEO Blake Scholl is hopeful that the firm's technology — dubbed Boomless ... 1 prototype hit Mach 1.12 while flying over the Mojave Desert. The firm said it placed microphones on ...

Boom Supersonic passed a major milestone last ... experimental plane while flying as high as 36,514 feet above the Mojave Desert. This time, however, the XB-1 demonstrated another important ...

Boom Supersonic has a change to its flight plan ... advance on the morning of the second and final supersonic flight of its ...

Boom attributed the high-altitude Mach capability to technology being developed for ... Mach 1 during its 12th test flight above the Mojave desert Tuesday morning. Screenshot from Boom Supersonic ...

Boom Supersonic’s XB-1 has broken the sound barrier, paving the way for faster commercial flights if future tests succeed.

Supersonic Rebirth Since the beginning of air travel, the industry has always looked at ways to move more people quicker and/or cheaper. When supersonic flight was invented shortly after World War II, ...