One of the biggest problems facing supersonic aircraft today is the sonic boom issue. Once an airplane goes fast enough, the noise of breaking the sound barrier at best is annoying but, at worse, ...

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

Boom Supersonic plans to break the sound barrier during a test flight this ... first supersonic passenger jet since the British-French Concorde, which was retired in 2003. "It will still be ...

(Boom Supersonic via AP) Updated [hour]:[minute] [AMPM] [timezone], [monthFull] [day], [year] An aircraft developed by Boom ...

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

The countdown has begun for the XB-1’s “historic” first supersonic test flight that should break the sound barrier, according ...

Tuesday’s XB-1 flight marks the first human-piloted civil supersonic flight since Concorde’s retirement more than 20 years ...

Colorado company Boom Supersonic plans to break the sound barrier with its test plane XB-1 during a test flight this morning, with the flight due to be streamed live online ...

Almost 22 years after Concorde made its final commercial flights, a prototype passenger jet is attempting to break the sound barrier – and its first supersonic test flight takes off today (28 January) ...

An aircraft developed by Boom Supersonic became the first independently funded jet to break the sound barrier this week ... which has been on hiatus since the Concorde jet was grounded more ...

Almost 22 years after Concorde made its final commercial flights, a prototype passenger jet is attempting to break the sound barrier – and its first supersonic test flight takes off today (28 ...