It really does bring the boom. A supersonic aircraft nicknamed the “Son of Concorde” neared Mach 1 — the speed of sound — in ...

Another example of how the bleeding edge aerospace sector is going through a massive shakeup has surfaced as civilian supersonic startup Exosonic has announced that it is going out of business after ...

During the Nov. 5 test flight, which lasted 55 minutes, XB-1 reached an altitude of 23,015 feet (7,015 meters) and a new top ...

Boom Supersonic's XB-1 hits a new speed milestone of 629 mph, bringing it closer to breaking the sound barrier—setting the ...

Boom Overture hopes to pick up where Concorde left off two decades ago and become a slower, smaller, but more profitable jet.

Several aerospace manufacturers are competing to create the first supersonic jet since the British Concorde, which was retired in 2003 due to concerns over its expense and the sonic booms it created ...

The BBC looks at why sonic booms are more common in the East of England and whether there could be many more in future. A ...

Why don’t we have supersonic aircraft any more? Although commercial supersonic air travel kicked off in the 1960s with ... the sonic boom. When an object accelerates to faster than the speed ...

THE supersonic jet that could fly passengers from London to New York City in 3.5hours has reached a new top speed in its latest test flight. The XB-1 plane, from Boom Technology, completed its ...

So could one of these supersonic ideas take off and bring back the heyday of speedy air travel? The Sun looks at some of the projects underway... Boom has been seriously ramping up testing this ...