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

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

The China National Precision Machinery Import & Export Corporation displays their CM-302 Supersonic Anti-ship Missile (AShM) ...

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

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 ...

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

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

Boom will now shift its attentions toward developing Overture, its supersonic passenger jet.

During the second supersonic flight of the XB-1 technology demonstrator today, the jet exceeded Mach 1 three times without a ...

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