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 ...

The current titleholder for the world's fastest private jet is the Gulfstream G700, developed by Gulfstream Aerospace.

CHINA has unveiled its latest supersonic drone which it says could fly passengers at twice the speed of Concorde. The superfast aircraft, dubbed “Monkey King”, aims to reach a top ...

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

Companies are investing billions of dollars in bringing supersonic back, but the path isn't going to be easy.

NASA says the X59 supersonic jet will produce a sonic thump instead of a sonic boom, which might help lower it's noise.

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Endurance is a game-changer in modern combat missions—discover the ten US military aircraft the range envelope further than ...

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

Being a test pilot isn’t always the healthiest business in the world. [In the 1950s, test pilots were being killed at the ...

Two weeks ago, Boom Supersonic’s XB-1 demonstrator plane made history when it broke the sound barrier over the continental ...