US startup Boom Supersonic is developing a Mach 2.2 airplane that’s more than twice as fast as today’s commercial jets. But the long-term goal, its CEO tells CNN, is to “fly anywhere in the ...

But this, says Scholl, is not your grandfather’s supersonic plane.While the planes of Boom, as the name would indicate, will share with Concorde the signature sound of crossing the sound barrier ...

Boom Supersonic's order book . In June 2021, Boom made headlines when United Airlines announced a commitment to purchase 15 units of the jet. A year later, in August 2022, Boom ...

Denver-based Boom Supersonic has chosen Greensboro, North Carolina, as the site of its first manufacturing facility, the “Overture Superfactory.” There, Boom will build its updated version of ...

Traveling 2.2 times faster than the speed of sound, Boom's supersonic aircraft is a step closer to getting assembled at Centennial Airport, where the first subsonic test flights will occur in 2018.

Boom Supersonic has raised $100 million from an array of Silicon Valley investors to help it build a supersonic airliner. It’s a large amount of money by tech industry standards but only a ...

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 ...

Boom Supersonic’s XB-1 prototype test plane broke the sound barrier for the first time with a top speed of Mach 1.1. Another small step toward the return of supersonic travel.

The Boom Supersonic aircraft exceeded Mach 1 after taking off from the Mojave Air and Space Port in California for its highly anticipated 12th test flight.