American company Boom Supersonic just broke the sound barrier with a civilian plane. What exactly is supersonic travel, and ...

Today’s a day I’ve been looking forward to for more than a decade,” said Blake Scholl, Boom's visionary founder and chief ...

More than two decades after Europe’s failed attempt at a supersonic airliner, the USA is on track to make it work. View on ...

A Carnegie Mellon University grad is behind the successful flight earlier this week of the first independently developed jet to break the sound barrier.

Credit: Boom Supersonic/Cover Images Commercial aircraft will soon be ready to break the sound barrier again as Boom Supersonic’s demonstrator aircraft, the XB-1, has made its first supersonic flight.

A sleek white aircraft has become the first independently developed jet to break the sound barrier. A sleek white aircraft ...

An aircraft developed by Boom Supersonic has become the first independently funded jet to break the sound barrier.

And then there was the flying machine that brought Scholl up short: a British Airways supersonic ... Concorde passengers had to pony up. The plane will be smaller than the average passenger jet ...

And then there was the flying machine that brought Scholl up short: a British Airways supersonic Concorde ... a quarter of what the old Concorde passengers had to pony up. The plane will be smaller ...