Boom’s demonstrator aircraft, the XB1, and its bigger sibling the commercial jetliner, Overture, are leveraging technology from the days of the Concorde, “rather than starting from scratch ...

Boom Supersonic unveiled the XB-1 prototype—an independent, privately funded supersonic jet designed to test technologies for its ambitious passenger aircraft, the Overture. Powered by three jet ...

Like Concorde, Overture will fly at 60,000ft, above turbulence and jet streams and weather systems, twice as high as conventional airliners, where the sky is turning navy.

Blake Scholl, CEO of Boom Supersonic, said: “You’ll be able to fly Overture for a quarter the price of a Concorde ticket, or about the same price you’d pay in business class today.

The first studies conceptualizing Concorde started in 1954. In 1962, France and Britain signed a treaty that created a joint development project to build it—the scale of the effort was so ...

If that sounds familiar, it should. That was the promise of the now-retired Concorde, which first flew in 1969 and operated until 2003. Concorde was capable of flying from New York to London in ...

“A good start to the year,” Scholl says. Supersonic planes travel at speeds greater than the speed of sound: Concorde passengers used to joke that you could have a first breakfast in ...

Over 13 years since Concorde was retired from service, a US startup from Denver, Colorado believes it can offer supersonic flights between London and New York which take just over three hours and ...

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Its production-conforming design revealed recently at the Farnborough Air Show in the UK has managed to turn the clock back to the 1960s and look astonishingly similar to Concorde. Huge delta ...