When the experimental XB-1 aircraft achieved supersonic speeds on a test flight, it did not create a disruptive sonic boom – thanks to a physics phenomenon called the Mach cutoff ...

U.S. aviation startup Spike says that its new "low-boom," 18-passenger supersonic Diplomat jet will take flight in the late ...

The Concorde cut transatlantic flight times in half vs. traditional subsonic jet airliners, but why was it restricted from ...

An aeronautics professor says videos clearly show a sonic boom. But the U.S. Air Force has denied that any plane went ...

The Spike S-512 Diplomat will be able to fly from New York to Paris in under four hours, using high-tech engineering to minimize its sonic boom.

As residents of Chicago learned last week, sonic booms can cause damage such as broken windows, minor structural damage, and ...

Achieving supersonic flight over land may be within the reach of Boom Supersonic’s Overture aircraft, a potentially historic development that could revolutionize the commercial passenger airline ...

Boom Supersonic might have snatched aviation’s holy grail after announcing on Monday that its XB-1 test plane had completed its maiden supersonic flight two weeks ago without producing a sonic ...

On January 28, the company’s XB-1 demonstrator achieved supersonic flight three times with no audible sonic boom measured on the ground. That paves the way for quiet travel at the speed of sound ...

Unfortunately, the sonic boom is still an issue for Boom Supersonic's designs and those of Dawn Aerospace.

Boom Supersonic now says Overture can avoid sonic booms, potentially opening up overland flights even at Mach 1 or higher. This could be a big deal.

The first dreams of supersonic air travel were crushed by annoyed Oklahoma City residents in the 1960s. Decades later, it could now be viable.