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 ...

Supersonic aviation startup Exosonic, which was working on commercial and military faster-than-sound jets, shutdown after ...

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Supersonic flight is on the verge of a comeback¹, and Boom Supersonic’s latest test flight just took us a step closer. With ...

XB-1 demonstrator did not quite break the sound barrier during its seventh test flight but reached speed and altitude ...

But NASA wants to show that faster-than-sound travel is possible without the annoyance of the boom, which is where its X-59 ...

Supersonic test plane XB-1 smashed its top speed record Tuesday, screaming through the sky at Mach 0.82 or 499 knots (575 mph ...

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

A group of mayors from villages on the North Shore of Long Island have formed a coalition to participate in any future ...

Boom's XB-1 effort promises to deliver the technical knowhow for their future supersonic passenger jet, Overture: a Mach 1.7 craft slated for testing in 2026. At Mach 0.82, subsonic test plane ...

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An Airbus A380 operated by Australian airline Qantas clocked over 290 hours of flight time despite a tool having been left ...