Supercruise sounds like marketing spin, but in aviation it describes a very specific and demanding trick: flying faster than ...

Humans have a tendency to impose our understanding of the laws of physics, our conception of what's possible, on the rest of the universe. The fact is that we keep pushing the goalposts of exactly ...

United Airlines is already promising customers a faster future for commercial aviation. In-flight videos tout sleek "concept jets" flying twice as fast as today's passenger planes and United has ...

Boom Supersonic's XB-1 demonstrator jet became the first U.S.-made civilian supersonic jet to break the sound barrier. The independently funded XB-1 reached a speed of Mach 1.122, or about 750 mph, ...

Although few people ever get the chance to travel at the speed of sound, it is an alluring flight goal and an impressive technological feat. Though average people have flown at high speeds on ...

Boom Supersonic is inching closer to achieving supersonic flight with its XB-1 demonstrator as test-flights continue over the Southern California desert. During its 10th test-flight at Mojave Air & ...

(CNN) — Last week, American company Boom Supersonic flew faster than the speed of sound with its XB-1 supersonic demonstrator aircraft. It’s now the first piloted non-military aircraft to break the ...

A jet-manufacturing startup aiming to revive supersonic passenger travel broke the sound barrier for the first time Tuesday morning at the Mojave Air & Space Port in Southern California. Boom ...

A sleek white aircraft became the first independently developed jet to break the sound barrier Tuesday, tearing through the air tens of thousands of feet above the Mojave Desert and a crowd of ...

AI-generated summary reviewed by our newsroom. Read our AI Policy. Trump ended a 52-year ban on overland supersonic flight via executive order. Boom Supersonic plans to begin jet production at its NC ...

If you are planning to travel by air over the Thanksgiving or Christmas holidays – and millions of Americans are – would you jump at the chance to get to your destination in half the time? Does New ...

On December 9, Boom Supersonic entered a new industry, introducing a natural gas turbine designed to meet the rising electricity needs of AI data centers. The US aerospace company is best known for ...