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 ...

Two aviation companies in Greensboro, N.C., are developing new aircraft designs that aim to double flight speeds and halve ...

After more than two decades of silence in the skies following the retirement of Concorde, supersonic passenger flight is probably staging a comeback. Leading this new chapter is Boom Supersonic, an ...

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 ...

As the first major piloted NASA X-plane to fly in a generation and the first crewed, purpose-built U.S. high-speed research aircraft since the X-15 of the 1960s, the X-59 low-boom ...

I went on board two Concordes, including the first prototype, at Paris's air and space museum. Concorde, retired in 2003 due to costs and a crash, flew at more than twice the speed of sound. Boom ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Boom Supersonic, the Colorado startup that aims to assemble passenger jets in North Carolina, celebrated President Donald Trump’s ...

President Donald Trump has ordered the Federal Aviation Administration to end the 52-year ban on supersonic flights in the United States, which will clear the way for commercial passenger aircraft to ...

In December, Congress is expected to review legislation that would end the FAA's 52-year restriction on commercial supersonic flight over land. A reversal of the ban could have big implications for ...