supersonic

United’s venture capital arm is investing in a vertically integrated aerospace startup developing engines and airframes capable of supersonic flight.

Company’s XB-1 ‘Baby Boom’ demonstrator breaks the sound barrier at Mojave Air & Space Port in California, where the first supersonic flight occurred in 1947.

Boom Technology founder Blake Scholl talks about the return of supersonic flight on ‘Bring It Home’ podcast.

RVR should be in the plan for any AvGeek visiting the Manchester area. And I highly recommend putting the Concorde Platinum Tour in that plan. 

The milestone flight helps provide the foundation for the company’s flagship Overture design, an SAF-powered supersonic jet.

Boom Supersonic announced structural supply agreements with three major aerospace companies for its Overture supersonic aircraft at the Paris Air Show 2023. The Centennial, Colo.-based company has signed agreements with Aernnova for Overture’s wings, Leonardo for the fuselage and wing box, and Aciturri for the tail. Overture is the sustainable supersonic aircraft being built by […]

Ten passengers, 7800 kilometers at Mach 1.4. London-New York in three hours. If the Concorde hadn’t existed, we would have said supersonic commercial flying was too good to be true. More than once, the aviation industry desperately searched for a disruptive element. It is still looking for that element today, among renders promising features close […]

Virgin Galactic Holdings, Inc. unveiled its design for a new high-speed commercial passenger aircraft on Monday, taking a key first step by signing an important supplier partner for the aircraft’s engines, the company announced in a press release. The initial supersonic design is targeting an aircraft capable of Mach 3, or three times the speed […]

New technology developed by incumbent aircraft manufacturing giants Boeing and Airbus are pushing aircraft farther and farther. Singapore to Newark, currently the world’s longest flight by distance, clocks in at 17 to 18 hours nonstop. Qantas has challenged Boeing and Airbus to develop an aircraft that can fly nonstop from Sydney to New York, a […]

“She Flies! She Flies!” is the first sound that most people remember about this day 50 years ago. Raymond Baxter, the BBC’s anchor that was covering the event shouted in excitement while the four Snecma Olympus 593 engines delivered full thrust and the Aerospatiale/BAC Concorde left the runway and was finally airborne. It was a […]