Sonic booms have long been a barrier to overland supersonic flights. The Concorde was banned from virtually every country in ...

Sleek airliners transporting passengers at supersonic speeds and reasonable prices over land could help restore some of the ...

Sleek airliners transporting passengers at supersonic speeds and reasonable prices over land could help restore some of the thrill of flying.

Could all our future planes travel faster than the speed of sound? It’s been more than 20 years since the last supersonic passenger flight took off, but a US company wants to bring it back.

T he Boom Overture is an upcoming supersonic transport. It will carry 60 to 80 passengers traveling at Mach 1.7, with a range ...

Comac’s design target is a sonic boom strength of less than 85 PLdB when cruising at Mach 1.6 and 16,000 m (52,500 ft.) altitude. This compares with 110 PLdB for Concorde and 75 PLdB for the X-59.

Sonic booms have been demonstrated to ... A key difference between the Concorde and Overture is that the Boom aircraft will not require the use of afterburners to take off. An afterburner increase ...

The Concorde, an Anglo-French supersonic airliner that first ... and was able to land without a sonic boom, the company said. There has already been commercial interest in the Overture, with Boom ...

Chinese aerospace giant Comac has unveiled its plans for the C949, a supersonic aircraft designed to fly 50% farther than the Concorde and ... would amplify the sonic boom sound.

Amid heightened concerns about U.S. aviation infrastructure, a crop of startups are bullish that they will disrupt the travel ...

Schlieren photography showing air flow around the Boom Supersonic’s XB-1. Credit: NASA/Boom Supersonic. On February 10, in the skies above the Mojave Desert, the Boom Supersonic XB-1 test jet ...