Supersonic planes will burn significantly more fuel than current aircraft, resulting in higher emissions of carbon dioxide, ...

American company Boom Supersonic just broke the sound barrier with a civilian plane. What exactly is supersonic travel, and ...

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

This 34-minute flight, the culmination of 11 previous subsonic ones, took off from Mojave Air and Space Port in California.

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

The aircraft catching the most interest is the Overture, a commercial style plane designed to carry up to 80 passengers with a range of 7,800km. Overture has the potential to revolutionise air travel ...

The Overture passenger supersonic aircraft will be powered by four wing-mounted engines that enable it to potentially reach Mach 1.7 over water and cruise at just under Mach 1 over land.

An aircraft developed by Boom Supersonic became the first independently funded jet to break the sound barrier this week. The XB-1 aircraft accelerated to Mach 1.05 at about 35,000 feet during a test f ...

Boom Supersonic's XB-1 supersonic demonstrator aircraft during its 11th test flight ... Boom plans to build an airliner called Overture that can fly at Mach 1.7. Flying supersonically can ...