Boom Supersonic, a company working to develop passenger aircraft capable of traveling faster than the speed of sound, announced that its planes will be able to fly at supersonic speeds without the ...

When the experimental XB-1 aircraft broke the sound barrier three times during its first supersonic flight on 28 January, it did not produce a sonic boom audible from the ground, according to US ...

Revival of supersonic air travel is a subject which has largely been relegated to ‘silly season’ status in the two decades since withdrawal of the BAC-Aerospatiale Concorde fleet. While no supersonic ...

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A small, dart-shaped aircraft screamed across the Mojave Desert in early 2025 at nearly the speed of sound, and the company that built it says the next step is punching through. Boom Supersonic’s XB-1 ...

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Hermeus successfully flew its latest Quarterhorse aircraft, marking the company’s second first flight in less than a year. The flight kicks off a test campaign that will see the unmanned aircraft ...

Late last week, American company Boom Supersonic flew faster than the speed of sound with its XB-1 supersonic demonstrator aircraft. It’s now the first piloted non-military aircraft to break the sound ...

Supersonic flight and its visions of high-speed thrills, intense pressure changes, and dramatic sonic booms have persisted across pop culture for decades now. But is it legit? While the idea of ...

On June 5, NASA’s answer to that problem broke the sound barrier for the first time as the X-59 went supersonic over the ...