More than 20 years since the final Concorde flight, is a small US start-up now on course to bring back supersonic air travel?

US aerospace firm Boom Supersonic is expecting to reach design freeze on the Overture supersonic passenger aircraft in about a week, as flight-testing of its experimental XB-1 jet concludes.

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 ...

MOJAVE, Calif. and DENVER, Feb. 10, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- Boom Supersonic, the company building the world's fastest airliner, Overture, today announced Boomless Cruise for its supersonic airliner ...

(MENAFN- PR Newswire) Boomless cruise is based on well-established physics known as Mach cutoff, in which a sonic boom refracts in the atmosphere and never reaches the ground. This effect is ...

Boomless Cruise enables flights up to 50% faster over land and 2X faster over water on Overture supersonic airliner Boomless Cruise is based on well-established physics known as Mach cutoff, in ...

With its test flights now complete, Boom is now switching focus to the production of its Overture airliner, which promises to bring supersonic travel to consumers on flights both over water and ...

Related stories If regulations change, Boom's Overture airliner could make coast-to-coast US flights 90 minutes faster, Scholl said. He added, however, that Boomless Cruise can only work between M ...