For most travelers, the loud, window-rattling boom of a supersonic jet is something you hear about in documentaries rather than experience in real life. Public noise restrictions have kept passenger ...

Boom Supersonic is a startup aviation manufacturer focused on returning to commercial supersonic flight with their new jet. This video explores the background of Boom Supersonic, highlighting the Boom ...

United Airlines CEO Scott Kirby gives Boom Supersonic's Overture a 50-50 chance to fly. Skeptics write off the concept.

Today, many military aircraft can break the sound barrier to enter supersonic flight. Certain commercial models can as well, including the Concorde, which is famous for its record-breaking flights. As ...

Boom Supersonic took a step toward its passenger jet ambitions Friday by completing the first flight of its demonstrator plane, called XB-1, at the Mojave Air & Space Port in California. The company ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — A wayward and unresponsive business plane that flew over the nation’s capital Sunday afternoon caused the military to scramble a fighter jet before the plane crashed in Virginia, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Aviation history was just very quietly made in the skies of Southern California. NASA’s X-59 supersonic jet completed its first ...

It's been a long time coming, but the first flight of the X-59 experimental aircraft, made by NASA and Lockheed Martin Skunk Works as a means to prove that quiet supersonic flight is possible, is more ...

NASA's new supersonic jet, the X-59, is set to take its first flight this week. The jet, created in collaboration with Lockheed Martin, is designed to travel faster than the speed of sound while ...

This browser does not support the Video element. A fighter jet that was trying to intercept an unresponsive small plane that flew over D.C. Sunday triggered report of a loud boom that was heard across ...