This 34-minute flight, the culmination of 11 previous subsonic ones, took off from Mojave Air and Space Port in California.

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

American company Boom Supersonic just broke the sound barrier with a civilian plane. What exactly is supersonic travel, and ...

Stretching back to WWII, the history of Russian jet development is intertwined with that of the United States. Here are the ...

He said the craft will be propelled by a state-of-the-art ramrotor detonation engine, which combines a rotary detonation ... Despite the ultrafast speed, Deng said passengers on such supersonic ...

Today’s a day I’ve been looking forward to for more than a decade,” said Blake Scholl, Boom's visionary founder and chief ...

Breaking the sound barrier in a privately developed civil aircraft is a significant aviation milestone by any measure. But as the champagne corks popped and the engines on Boom Supersonic’s XB-1 ...

Tuesday morning at Mojave Air & Space Port in California, almost 80 years after U.S. Air Force ace Chuck Yeager first ...

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