Sleek airliners transporting passengers at supersonic speeds and reasonable prices over land could help restore some of the ...

It is the next step in aviation." Boom Supersonic founder and CEO Blake Scholl poses with a model of the XB-1, the world’s first independently developed supersonic jet aircraft, during the Farnborough ...

One company leading this charge is Boom Supersonic. At the end of January, Colorado-based Boom successfully flew its test plane, the XB-1, at the speed of Mach 1.1 (or 1.1 times the speed of sound).

Brandenburg is the chief test pilot of Boom Supersonic. And the “she” he’s referring to is the XB-1, a long, thin dart designed to cut through the air in the most efficient way possible.

The International Civil Aviation Organization aligned on a recommended new standard for supersonic aircraft landing and ...

The Chinese airframer has a way to go in designing a supersonic airliner and has yet to fly a low-boom demonstrator similar ...

This means that Boom's vision for a far wider range of destinations is a lot more possible. Potential routes include San Francisco to Tokyo, which could be made in six hours, and Newark, New Jersey, ...

"This test confirmed that all components — software, mechanical linkages, and control laws — work together as intended." ...

“We’ve got the only operational, non-military supersonic jet in the world,” he said. “That’s the XB-1 prototype. We’ve demonstrated we can do it without a sonic boom.” Boom ...

Boom Supersonic Says Xb-1 Aircraft Flew Over Mach 1 With No Audible Sonic Boom On The Ground Below The aircraft, detailed in blueprints in a recent academic paper, is meant to reach Mach 1.6 and ...

"We’ve got the only operational, non-military supersonic jet in the world," he said. "That’s the XB-1 prototype. We’ve demonstrated we can do it without a sonic boom." Scholl’s company ...