See Boom Supersonic's "refined" design of the Overture aircraft in this animated explainer. Credit: Boom Supersonic ...

Despite all these technological advances, a supersonic aircraft still cannot beat physics. Shock waves, and their associated ...

Despite all these technological advances, a supersonic aircraft still cannot beat physics. Shock waves, and their associated ...

Overture will be the world’s first independently developed supersonic jet and the first civil supersonic jet made in America.

Boom Supersonic’s XB-1 creates a sonic boom inaudible from the ground below when flying at the exact right speed and altitude ...

More than 20 years since the final Concorde flight, is a small US start-up now on course to bring back supersonic air travel?

The company claimed the aircraft would cut the travel time from New York to Rome to just four hours and 40 minutes, half the ...

American firm Boom Supersonic’s XB-1 has once again reached supersonic speeds without producing an audible boom, following ...

Boom Supersonic independently designed and built the XB-1, the first civil supersonic jet in America. The XB-1's first ...

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Two weeks ago, Boom Supersonic’s XB-1 demonstrator plane made history when it broke the sound barrier over the continental ...