The global aviation industry is on the cusp of a significant transformation with China’s recent announcement of its ambitious ...

Plans to fly supersonic could be set to make a return as a Colorado-based firm is working on plans to revive commercial flights.

Boom Supersonic's XB-1 jet broke the sound barrier for the first time on Monday as the American company seeks to deliver the world's faster airliner capable of carrying passengers between New York ...

A rendering of Aerion's AS2 supersonic business jet. The company has deposits from dozens of customers and recently signed an agreement for technical assistance with Airbus -- the company that, in ...

A newly designed supersonic jet would be able to fly passengers from New York City to London in just 80 minutes. Dubbed the Hyper Sting, the conceptual plane would be nearly twice as large and ...

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 ...

The flagship supersonic jet, the Concorde, hasn’t flown since 2003 and even at that point the smaller plane could only carry about 125 passengers. The Concorde was also far more expensive than ...

A demonstrator aircraft for Boom Supersonic’s new passenger jet took to the skies this month. CEO Blake Scholl says we’ll all be flying supersonic in the future.

Over 50 years after Concorde first took to the skies, a brand new supersonic jet is preparing for lift off. Denver based start-up Boom Supersonic has announced it will roll out XB-1, a 1:3 scale ...

Boom Supersonic's chief test pilot Tristan "Geppetto" Brandenburg took off in the company's XB-1 jet from the storied Mojave Air & Space Port in California this morning under mostly clear skies ...

Boom Supersonic's XB-1 jet, the first civil aircraft to go supersonic over the continental United States. (Image credit: Boom Supersonic) NASA also gathered sound data from the test flight.

NASA’s new supersonic jet, the X-59, goes so fast it can’t have a windshield. Here’s how pilots will fly it.