Get full access to The Daily Beast for $1 It is hoped that it could cross the Atlantic in under four hours, producing a muffled sonic boom. ROBYN BECK/AFP via Getty Images The ‘Son of Concorde’ has ...

Two decades after Concorde’s last flight a new class of supersonic commercial jets are on the horizon. Boom Supersonic's experimental XB-1 jet (shown in a Schlieren photograph) has flown at supersonic ...

The skies of Oklahoma City roared for six months in 1964 as military aircraft intentionally rattled the population below with a daily barrage of thunderous sonic booms. It was a controversial test — ...

On June 6, 2025, President Donald Trump signed an executive order that undid one of the most influential factors in the commercial failure of the Concorde as a mainline supersonic transport when it ...

Boom Supersonic announced that it could fly faster than the speed of sound without a sonic boom. Elon Musk backed the CEO's calls for regulatory changes to allow supersonic flights over land. A change ...

The Concorde was legendary for its supersonic speed, capable of flying from London to New York in just three and a half hours ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Concorde was noisy, fuel-inefficient, and very expensive. But it remains the only plane to achieve supersonic commercial ...

Supersonic commercial flights are on the road to making a comeback, decades after the Concorde took to the skies and then witnessed a spectacular fall that was a mix of commercial as well as technical ...

NASA has already proved that its needle-nosed X-59 can move seriously fast in recent test flights. Now, the next step is to find out whether it can break the sound barrier without announcing its ...

Boom Supersonic's experimental XB-1 jet (shown in a Schlieren photograph) has flown at supersonic speeds on multiple outings. The company hopes to take what it learns from XB-1 to produce a full-size ...