Amid efforts to lift a ban on supersonic flight over US soil, plane developer Boom says it’s getting closer to creating ...

If your sense of hearing is weakening, you're likely to first notice it during conversations. Why?"Because sometimes the speaker will use slight nuances of speech, their tone of voice, or minimally ...

President Donald Trump on Friday instructed the FAA to repeal its ban on overland supersonic flight, which has been in place ...

For over 50 years, the United States has imposed a speed limit in the skies: a federal ban that prohibits civilian aircraft from exceeding the speed of sound over land. The primary concern? Sonic ...

Prepare to be amazed by the top 10 planes that have conquered the sound barrier, redefining the limits of speed and ...

Sound barriers — essentially a solid wall designed to block noise from a road — are more commonly found in industrialized northern states and are still somewhat new in South Carolina ...

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 ...

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 ...

The U.S. has banned faster-than-sound air travel over the interior of the country for more than a half-century ...

Boom Supersonic's XB-1 demonstrator jet became the first U.S.-made civilian supersonic jet to break the sound barrier. The independently funded XB-1 reached a speed of Mach 1.122, or about 750 mph ...

If you buy through a BGR link, we may earn an affiliate commission, helping support our expert product labs. NASA is trying to break the sound barrier in a new and exciting way. Normally when ...