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

Revival of supersonic air travel is a subject which has largely been relegated to 'silly season' status in the two decades ...

The Alpena Combat Readiness Training Center (CRTC) verified in a statement on Facebook around 2 p.m. on Tuesday that the loud booms heard in and around Alpena were in fact sonic booms. “Your local ...

But on June 6, 2025, President Donald Trump signed an executive order that’s set to rip up that outdated rulebook, green ...

The Colorado startup has committed to opening its first manufacturing plant at the Piedmont Triad International Airport in ...

“That’s the XB-1 prototype. We’ve demonstrated we can do it without a sonic boom.” Boom Supersonic’s XB-1 demonstrator aircraft broke the sound barrier for its first time ever in late Januar ...

But the dream of faster-than-sound flight remained alive and ... get around this physical limitation? Well, the aircraft still creates a sonic boom, but what’s important is the way in which ...

around the supersonic aircraft." The plan was for Boom to break the sound barrier at a high enough altitude to avoid a sonic boom. By flying at high enough altitudes, Boom Supersonic says that it ...

They also confirmed no sonic boom ... around the aircraft at speeds exceeding Mach 1. In January, XB-1 became the first independently developed jet to fly faster than the speed of sound, and ...