A newly released image shows the sound barrier being broken on February 10 as Boom Supersonic’s XB-1, America’s first civil ...

In a major leap forward in the field of hypersonic flight, China has announced that an engine developed by it has shown to ...

Prior to 2003 a transatlantic trip from new york to london could be done in as little as 3 hours, compaired to today's fight ...

Boom Supersonic, the company aiming to create commercial planes that can travel faster than the speed of sound, have ...

A person fires a starting pistol. A distant observer stood 200 metres away (measured using a 20 m tape measure or trundle wheel) records the time between seeing the flash of light from the ...

Although sound travels quite fast, it is still possible to measure its speed in air. To do this, you need to measure the time it takes a sound to travel a measured distance. To reduce errors ...

Pilots have been exploiting the augmented jet stream to coast across the Atlantic Ocean at speeds of up to 840 mph — which is faster than the speed of sound, the outlet reported. The planes didn ...

SPEEDY flights that blast off faster than the speed of sound look set to return to skies as a US company reveals huge progress on a new Concorde-like service. Boom's XB-1 jet, dubbed the "Son of ...

When the experimental XB-1 aircraft broke the sound barrier three times during its first supersonic flight on 28 January, it did not produce a sonic boom audible from the ground, according to US ...