While the prospect of commercial supersonic flights is probably at least a decade from becoming a reality due to Boom ...

Flying at Mach 2—roughly 1,350 miles per hour—wind friction quickly raises the surface temperature of an aircraft's airframe. Concorde's nose could heat to 260°F, a temperature that would ...

Boom hopes its breakthrough will allow supersonic flights over land, making US coast-to-coast flights 90 minutes faster.

It flew at Mach 2. But the principal thing was its beauty. NOVA: What about your pride in the plane as a pilot? Calvert: Flying Concorde involved a mixture of emotions. As an airplane it just felt ...

Boom Supersonic CEO Blake Scholl said the Mach 1.7 Overture will keep the US aviation industry ahead of China in the ...

Scholl says Concorde had very loud, converted military engines, but Overture will be "dramatically quieter, and that means around an airport, Overture will be no louder than the subsonic airplanes ...

SON of Concorde' XB-1 jet is "on track" to break the sound barrier in early 2025, makers of the supersonic plane have announced. In its first major update of the year, bosses at Colorado-based ...

A plane dubbed the ‘son of the Concorde’ that could fly from London to New York in three and a half hours has completed its eleventh test flight. Boom Technologies say their plane is ‘on ...

The XB-1 is a subscale version of its planned passenger model. The company's CEO ... everyone outside the US will be flying around in Chinese planes, and that's not in the distant future ...