The Colorado-based company is aiming to build a Concorde-like supersonic aircraft—but has hurdles to clear before realizing ...

Boom's Supersonic XB-1 jet became the “world’s first independently developed supersonic jet” to break the sound barrier ...

The first supersonic flight of a U.S.-designed civil aircraft attracted a large crowd. Boom Aerospace The Overture is a much larger, more complicated commercial aircraft, designed to fly at Mach 1 ...

Boom Supersonic ... to lead to a larger 55-seat supersonic airliner design known as Overture. Overall, the program could have significant implications not only for commercial aviation but also for the ...

Overture already has customers in waiting: American and Japan Airlines have all placed orders for the proposed supersonic aircraft. Brandenburg landed the XB-1 safely just before 12 p.m. ET. Boom ...

(CNN) — Last week, American company Boom Supersonic ... jets cruise slightly slower than the speed of sound, at around Mach 0.8 (this is subsonic flight). Boom plans to build an airliner called ...

Boom Supersonic's XB-1 aircraft has broken the sound barrier ... the development of Boom’s supersonic commercial airliner, Overture. "A small band of talented and dedicated engineers has ...

2025 /PRNewswire/ -- Boom Supersonic, the company building the world's fastest airliner, Overture, today announced the successful first supersonic flight of its XB-1 demonstrator aircraft at the ...

The return of supersonic ... jet has broken the sound barrier. The XB-1, which has now completed 12 successful test flights since it first took to the air in March 2024, is the precursor to the ...

This achievement marks a significant step towards the development of Boom's Overture, a commercial supersonic aircraft designed to carry passengers at twice the speed of current subsonic airliners.