Boom Supersonic's Overture aims to revive fast air travel with Mach 1.7 speed, sustainable tech, and major airline backing.

Visually, the launch won't offer much as the rocket soars over the Southern California coast. Launches just after sunset and ...

NASA has begun testing a new supersonic aircraft, almost 22 years after Concorde flew its last passenger service. The “quiet” ...

The aircraft can allegedly reach Mach 1.7, and the company said it hopes to carry passengers by 2029. Unfortunately, the sonic boom is still an issue for Boom Supersonic's designs and those of ...

The first dreams of supersonic air travel were crushed by annoyed Oklahoma City residents in the 1960s. Decades later, it could now be viable.

Some may already be familiar with the sonic boom that accompanies a break to the sound barrier, but when and why would military aircraft be allowed to do so?

Dryden researchers made1,300 high-quality recordings of sonic booms during a series of January flightsand used other NASA aircraft to take observations within a boom's shockwave.The end result was ...

With this plane spike, engineers expect to reduce this sonic boom. For more information about the sonic boom physics and the progress made in sonic boom reduction, here is a link to a presentation ...

A sonic boom is the thunder-like noise a person hears when an airplane, travels faster than the speed of sound. The boom travels through the air with the plane, so it arrives at different ground ...

A “sonic boom” from the U.S. military’s response to a plane that drifted into unrestricted airspace. That plane crashed and four people died. My name is Erin B. Logan.

A sonic boom. A plane crash. And a dispute over repairs that weren’t made. May 14, 2025. Ian Duncan. NTSB: Pilot of crashed jet chased by military planes suddenly went silent. June 21, 2023.

According to NASA, a sonic boom happens when an aerospace vehicle is going faster than the speed of sound. The sudden change in air pressure is what creates the loud boom.