Today’s a day I’ve been looking forward to for more than a decade,” said Blake Scholl, Boom's visionary founder and chief ...

There were more sighs of relief than “I told you so” in the aftermath of Boom Supersonic’s XB-1 prototype aircraft breaking the sound barrier Jan. 28 on its initial three attempts.

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

Boom Supersonic announced Greensboro's Piedmont Triad International Airport would be the home for its first full-scale ...

The project, state officials said, could be worth $32 billion to the North Carolina economy and create some 2,400 jobs. Boom officials predict that supersonic flights will be available to everyday ...

Boom Supersonic has contracts with at least two airlines to ... The jets would be built in North Carolina. The company has said the engine it's developing for the Overture will have 35,000 pounds of ...

XB-1, also known as Overture, went supersonic over the ... Last year, Boom completed construction on its Overture factory in North Carolina, which will scale up to produce 66 Overture aircraft ...

The thunderous crack of a sonic boom ... supersonic speeds, and XB-1's historic flight is a major landmark towards my dreams being realised." Overture, already backed by 130 airline orders, promises ...

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

Flown by Boom Supersonic’s chief test pilot, Tristan “Geppetto” Brandenburg, the aircraft called XB-1 reached an altitude of 35,290 feet before accelerating to Mach 1.122, or 750 mph ...

Chris James receives funding from the Australian Research Council, the Commonwealth Defence Science and Technology Group (DSTG), and the US Office of Naval Research. Late last week, American ...