Boom Supersonic is one step closer to launching the spiritual heir to the Concorde. The US firm's XB-1 prototype reached a transonic speed of Mach 0.95 during Test Flight 11 on January 10, 2025. The ...

The countdown has begun for the XB-1’s “historic” first supersonic test flight that should break the sound barrier, according to Boom Supersonic. The test flight for the Boom Supersonic XB-1, a ...

Lockheed Martin is in the final stages of developing and delivering the X-59 Quesst. It's a supersonic aircraft that will be headed to NASA, and it promises to upend the supersonic aircraft industry.

Long before the Concorde, Convair envisioned a supersonic aircraft derived from the B-58 Hustler. The Convair Sonic Cruiser ...

Ultra-fast aircraft developer Boom Supersonic has pivoted its strategy to first develop electricity generating turbines for ...

Crusoe will pay Boom $1.25 billion for more than a gigawatt of generating capacity with deliveries of the turbines starting ...

Civilian supersonic flight may not have made its anticipated revival yet but there's still a need for speed as shown by ...

The rebirth of commercial supersonic flight has kind of, sort of come to pass as Dawn Aerospace announces that its 16-ft (4.8-m) Mk-II Aurora rocket-powered aircraft broke the sound barrier with a ...

We visited Boom Supersonic's hangar in Mojave, California, as the company prepared to break the sound barrier with its XB-1 demonstrator aircraft. Jesse Orrall (he/him/his) is a Senior Video Producer ...

Boom Supersonic has announced that its launch customer Crusoe has ordered 29 Superpower turbines to act as the power source ...

Supersonic sights: NASA's work to develop the X-59 QueSST aircraft alongside Lockheed Martin recently resulted in these amazing images that reveal the shape of sonic shockwaves.

Lockheed Martin announced in a press release the successful completion of an initial test flight for the X-59, a new supersonic airplane designed to cut down on noise concerns for faster commercial ...