And yet, knowing what I know about the climate, the promise of a return to supersonic flight is a little tarnished. We’re in ...

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

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

This week, a sleek white jet became the first privately built aircraft to fly faster than sound, soaring high above the Mojave Desert as a crowd watched in excitement ...

Boom Supersonic XB-1 flew over Mach One on Jan. 28, on the latest test flight at Mojave Air & Space Port, at Rutan Field. Chase planes were a Northrop T-38 and Dassault Mirage F1, a French fighter.

More than two decades after Europe’s failed attempt at a supersonic airliner, the USA is on track to make it work. View on ...

An American civil aircraft broke the sound barrier for the first time in California’s Mojave Desert, a US aviation company announced on Wednesday.

In a world where speed is often synonymous with progress, a small startup with just 140 employees has made a groundbreaking ...

The test flight took place in the same Mojave Desert area in California where Charles "Chuck" Yeager first broke the sound ...

Now that things are getting very real for Boom Supersonic – the ultra-fast jet maker that chose to locate its manufacturing ...

Boom Supersonic passed a major milestone with its first experimental flight to reach Mach 1. The speed was achieved about 11 ...

Boom Supersonic’s XB-1 aircraft has become the first independently developed jet to break the sound barrier, bringing ...