One of the biggest problems facing supersonic aircraft today is the sonic boom issue. Once an airplane goes fast enough, the noise of breaking the sound barrier at best is annoying but, at worse, ...

Virgin Galactic, a brand of Sir Richard Branson famous for its low-earth orbit rocket ship, has decided to throw its hat into the aviation market place. Specifically, with a supersonic jet capable of ...

Tennessee’s Republican-dominant Statehouse is seeking to adopt immigration enforcement policies to assist President Donald ...

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott, continuing a three-day series of border security-related actions, issued five executive orders Wednesday directing state agencies to assist President Donald Trump’s immigration ...

Bannister, a former pilot of the Concorde supersonic plane, made the call as the experimental XB-1 broke the sound barrier. It was a key test for the company that plans to build high-speed planes ...

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

The American-built civil supersonic jet is made from carbon fibre, and unlike Concorde’s droop nose, pilots use an “augmented reality vision system” to see past its long nose for takeoff and ...

Colorado-based company Boom’s piloted test aircraft XB-1 broke the ... Commercial supersonic flight has been on hiatus since Concorde was retired more than two decades ago after 27 years of ...

The Concorde passenger jet never really took off, ceasing operation after just a couple of decades due to high operating ...

Almost 22 years after Concorde made its final commercial flights, a prototype passenger jet has broken the sound barrier during a supersonic test flight. Boom Supersonic founder and CEO Blake ...

A sleek white aircraft became the ... place as the company works to revive supersonic passenger travel, which died with the grounding of the Anglo-French Concorde more than two decades ago.

in the X-1 aircraft in 1947. Reaching an altitude of 35,290 ft (19,756 m), the Boom XB-1 became not only the first commercial, piloted supersonic flight since Concorde retired in 2003, it was also ...