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

The Colorado-based company is aiming to build a Concorde-like supersonic aircraft—but has hurdles to clear before realizing that goal.

The Blue Angels flying team includes some of the most accomplished and skilled pilots in the U.S. Navy. Here are some facts ...

Boom’s XB-1 prototype is the first civilian jet made in America to break the sound barrier. On Jan. 28 ... speed with spurts as high as Mach 1.18. Mach 1 is equal to the speed of sound.

During the second supersonic flight of the XB-1 technology demonstrator today, the jet exceeded Mach 1 three times without a ...

The U.S. Navy has declared Initial Operating Capability (IOC) for a new infrared search-and-track sensor system developed by Lockheed Martin for F/A-18 Super Hornet strike fighters, according to a ...

Two weeks ago, that single-seat, three-engine aircraft became the first independently developed plane to break ... sound." A NASA study (PDF) of a series of test flights in 2012 with an F-18 ...

The countdown has begun for the XB-1’s “historic” first supersonic test flight that should break the sound barrier, according to Boom Supersonic. The test flight for the Boom Supersonic XB-1 ...

F/A-18 Super Hornet Block III Is One Tough Fighter Plane for the U.S. Navy – Over the summer, manufacturer Boeing revealed that the first F/A-18 Block II Super Hornets had ...