For aerospace and defense technology start-up Hermeus, everything comes down to speed. The Atlanta-based company is on a ...

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 ...

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

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

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

Boom Supersonic’s XB-1 creates a sonic boom inaudible from the ground below when flying at the exact right speed and altitude ...

See Boom Supersonic's "refined" design of the Overture aircraft in this animated explainer. Credit: Boom Supersonic ...

Boom Supersonic plans to build the world’s fastest airliner, Overture, and this week announced a breakthrough in the development process. On January 28, the company’s XB-1 demonstrator ...

When Boom Supersonic's XB-1 broke the sound barrier last month, it achieved commercial supersonic flight for the first time ...

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