Boom Supersonic says the company's XB-1 aircraft achieved supersonic flight without an audible sonic boom on the ground below.

Boom Supersonic says its XB-1 aircraft achieved supersonic flight without an audible sonic boom on the ground below. CEO Blake Scholl hopes supersonic passenger flight will eventually be allowed ...

As residents of Chicago learned last week, sonic booms can cause damage such as broken windows, minor structural damage, and ...

Boom has been given permission to go supersonic by the US FAA. The first-ever Special Flight Authorization (SFA) to Exceed Mach means the company's XB-1 prototype will be allowed to break the ...

Boom Supersonic passed a major milestone Tuesday on its path to reintroduce supersonic commercial flights. After years of testing and refinement, a pilot flying the aerospace company’s XB-1 ...

Thus, with high-performance aircraft, the altitude Mach number is usually given, as supersonic flight at sea level is rare: It entails vastly greater stresses ...

Breaking the sound barrier sounds super dramatic, but funny enough, it turns out it's really just a number on a meter. Here's ...

New York to London in 90 minutes? NASA exploring passenger jet that could do it The supersonic jetliner would travel four times faster than the speed of sound.

A new study by NASA’s Glenn Research Center has looked at the possibility of supersonic passenger jets. Its “high-speed strategy” is mooting commercial flights that travel at up to Mach 4 ...