Supersonic travel was once seen as the future for aviation. The era left just as fast as it arrived, particularly for Boeing ...

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After World War II, as early supersonic military aircraft were pushing the boundaries of flight, it seemed like a foregone conclusion that commercial aircraft would eventually fly faster than sound as ...

Boom Supersonic's XB-1 test jet broke the sound barrier for the first time on Tuesday. The XB-1 is a subscale version of its planned passenger model. The company's CEO says the US aviation market is ...

It was supposed to be the jet that made Concorde look slow - a supersonic airliner capable of nearly Mach 3, carrying hundreds of passengers across America in less than two hours. The Boeing 2707 was ...

It only took around three hours for the supersonic airliner to cross the Atlantic, but how much longer could the jet fly for.

A private company aiming to build the first supersonic airliner since the Concorde retired more than two decades ago achieved its first sound-barrier-busting flight over California's Mojave desert on ...

Concorde flight engineer Warren Hazelby gets chills recalling his first supersonic flight from London to New York in 2002. Hazelby remembers stepping onto the flight deck and taking it all in. The ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Boom Supersonic's XB-1 test jet broke the sound barrier for the first time on Tuesday. The XB-1 is a subscale version of its ...