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When planes exceed Mach 1 (the speed of sound, or about 767 miles per hour—1,234 kilometers/hour for those using the metric ...

A startup wants to revive the Concorde for the generations of flyers that missed out, without the noisy boom and the up to ...

Despite all these technological advances, a supersonic aircraft still cannot beat physics. Shock waves, and their associated ...

There is every indication that supersonic planes are on their way back, more than two decades after Concorde last took to the ...

Boom Supersonic independently designed and built the XB-1, the first civil supersonic jet in America. The XB-1's first supersonic flight last month was a ...

China's new 'Monkey King' drone is anticipated to be able to travel at twice the speed of sound and marks a groundbreaking ...

Boom will now shift its attentions toward developing Overture, its supersonic passenger jet.

Boom Supersonic plans to build the world’s fastest airliner, Overture, and this week announced a breakthrough in the ...

Supersonic planes will burn significantly more fuel than current aircraft, resulting in higher emissions of carbon dioxide, ...

When the experimental XB-1 aircraft achieved supersonic speeds on a test flight, it did not create a disruptive sonic boom – ...