Astro Mechanica – founded in 2021 by Ian Brooke and with a tight ship of only eight employees – is an aerospace startup ...

XB-1 demonstrator did not quite break the sound barrier during its seventh test flight but reached speed and altitude ...

Supersonic flight is on the verge of a comeback¹, and Boom Supersonic’s latest test flight just took us a step closer. With ...

A supersonic jet plane that could slash flight times in half has reached record speeds in its latest test flight. Boom Technology's XB-1 plane was performing the seventh of its ten subsonic test ...

American space agency NASA announced it has begun engine testing for the X-59 experimental aircraft, first flight expected early next year.

THE supersonic jet that could fly passengers from London to New York City in 3.5hours has reached a new top speed in its latest test flight. The XB-1 plane, from Boom Technology, completed its ...

The milestone, achieved high above California's Mojave Desert, marks the closest that aerospace innovator Boom Technology's supersonic demonstrator aircraft has come to traveling faster than the ...

Why don’t we have supersonic aircraft any more? Although commercial supersonic air travel kicked off in the 1960s with the arrival of the Concorde, since that jet was retired in 2003 ...

In 1962, the governments of Britain and France signed the Anglo-French Agreement, pooling their money and resources to develop a supersonic commercial jet. The name "Concorde" was chosen because ...

Boom Supersonic's XB-1 aircraft set a new speed record during its latest test flight. The Colorado company is working through a flight test program of the XB-1 supersonic demonstrator aircraft ...

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