Boom will now shift its attentions toward developing Overture, its supersonic passenger jet.

Boom hopes its breakthrough will allow supersonic flights over land, making US coast-to-coast flights 90 minutes faster.

Tuesday’s XB-1 flight marks the first human-piloted civil supersonic flight since Concorde’s retirement more than 20 years ...

Almost 22 years after Concorde made its final commercial flights, a prototype passenger jet is attempting to break the sound ...

The single-seat jet, a 201-foot-long test model by Boom Supersonic, hit 844 mph just 12 minutes into its latest test flight out of California’s Mojave Air and Space Port.

A supersonic jet nicknamed the 'Son of the Concorde' has officially traveled ... but saw XB-1 break the sound barrier two times during the flight. Aviation startup, Boom, said XB-1 is paving ...

The test flight took place in the same Mojave Desert area in California where Charles "Chuck" Yeager first broke the sound ...

A supersonic jet built by US company Boom has broken the sound barrier for the first time since the Concorde during a test flight. Boom's Supersonic XB-1 demonstrator is the first civil aircraft to ...

the speed of sound. 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 ...

A US company's prototype jet has broken the sound barrier in a demonstration it hopes will pave the way for a successor to the Concorde. Boom Supersonic's XB-1 is the first civilian aircraft to ...

A Carnegie Mellon University grad is behind the successful flight earlier this week of the first independently developed jet ...