The first dreams of supersonic air travel were crushed by annoyed Oklahoma City residents in the 1960s. Decades later, it ...

The future of flight is about to break the sound barrier, quietly. Meet NASA’s X-59 QueSST, a revolutionary supersonic ...

From exploding prototypes to shattered records, the F-8 Crusader’s rise to dominance was anything but ordinary. In 1955, Vought stunned the world by breaking the sound barrier on the very first flight ...

Boom Supersonic founder and CEO Blake Scholl wrote on X, noting that in January, his company’s XB-1 aircraft became the first privately developed supersonic jet to break the sound barrier.

Currently, there are several supersonic passenger jets in development that aim to reach speeds beyond Mach 1 without crashing loudly through the sound barrier.

Boom Supersonic, the Colorado startup that aims to assemble passenger jets in North Carolina, celebrated President Donald Trump’s executive order Friday ending a 52-year-old ban on overland ...

Added Scholl, “The sound barrier was never physical — it was regulatory. With supersonic legalized, the return of supersonic passenger air travel is just a matter of time.” ...

In January, Colorado-based Boom Supersonic broke the sound barrier with its XB-1 demonstration aircraft. The XB-1 is the first American-made civilian jet to travel faster than the speed of sound.

It obtained FAA authorisation to fly the three-engined jet over a Mojave test range in California, carrying out a series of 11 test sorties before taking the jet through the sound barrier at ...

Boom Supersonic founder and CEO Blake Scholl wrote on X, noting that in January, his company’s XB-1 aircraft became the first privately developed supersonic jet to break the sound barrier.

New order opens skies across US to supersonic flights The U.S. has banned faster-than-sound air travel over the interior of the country for more than a half-century Andrew Feinberg in Washington, D.C.