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

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

It's now the first piloted non-military aircraft to break the sound barrier since the Concorde was retired from service in 2003. It's the first step in Boom's ambitious goal to have supersonic ...

An aircraft developed by Boom Supersonic became the first independently funded jet to break the sound barrier this week. The XB-1 aircraft accelerated to Mach 1.05 at about 35,000 feet during a test f ...

Concorde had a capacity of up to 128 passengers ... They plan to fly their X-59 supersonic aircraft over US cities and gauge responses from citizens. Quesst aims to use the geometry of the X ...

The XB-1 test flight was a unique event that will live on in the history books and has given travelers hope of a return to ...

After Boom Supersonic's XB-1 demonstrator went Mach 1, RGN interviewed Mike Bannister, who served as the Chief Pilot of BA's ...