Jan 30, 2025 · The Concorde’s sonic boom had a nasty habit of rattling windows and startling groundlings, which led several countries, including the U.S., to ban civilian craft from flying supersonic speeds over land to this day.

Jan 28, 2025 · Boom Supersonic, the American company building what promises to be the world’s fastest airliner, broke the sound barrier for its first time with a test flight in Mojave, California, on Tuesday.

2 days ago · Designs for supersonic airliners began in the mid-20th century, and by the 1970s we had supersonic passenger flight. There was the little-known Russian Tupolev-144 and Concorde, a Franco-British ...

Jan 28, 2025 · Boom, the American company building what promises to be the world's fastest airliner, broke the sound barrier for its first time with a test flight in Mojave, California. The company's XB-1...

Jan 28, 2025 · US company Boom has broken the sound barrier during a test flight of its prototype aircraft XB-1. The test opens the way for the first supersonic passenger jet since the British-French Concorde ...

Jan 28, 2025 · Boom Technology’s XB-1 test plane. On January 28, 2025, it became the first commercial-type aircraft to fly supersonic since the Concorde in 2003. Today, for the first time since Concorde was ...

Jan 29, 2025 · The XB-1 aircraft accelerated to Mach 1.05 within about 11 minutes of taking off, according to Boom Supersonic and live video of the test flight. The flight at the Mojave Air & Space Port in Mojave, California, took place as the company works to revive supersonic passenger travel, which died with the grounding of the Anglo-French Concorde more ...

Nov 26, 2019 · Building on Concorde’s legacy as one of aviation’s greatest breakthroughs, Boom is focused on delivering an aircraft that surpasses expectations for today’s traveler. Here’s an insider’s look into how we’re building Overture, the world’s fastest civil supersonic aircraft.

Apr 14, 2020 · Let’s take a look back in time at the build of Concorde and this supersonic era of progress and innovation. Building the first pre-production aircraft Concordes, c. 1960s. We consider Concorde to be a technological marvel of its time.

Nov 26, 2019 · Building on Concorde’s legacy as one of aviation’s greatest breakthroughs, Boom is focused on delivering an aircraft that surpasses expectations for today’s traveler. Here’s an insider’s look into how we’re building Overture, the world’s fastest civil supersonic aircraft.