The U.S. President Donald J. Trump signed legislation that lifted the previous ban on supersonic flight over land on June 6, 2025.

ABOVE: Boom Aerospace is developing ‘quiet technologies’ to address sonic boom problems Lawmakers in the US House and Senate ...

Florida Turbine Technologies is the answer to the pivotal four-month question about which company will be the engine developer for Boom Supersonic’s Overture aircraft.

The none-too-modest aim of Boom Supersonic is to design and manufacture a supersonic airliner, which it calls Overture. Early this year, Boom successfully passed Mach 1 with a one-third scale ...

They have also expressed their commitment to building a supersonic aircraft in the United States, as they did with their demonstrator, the XB-1, which went supersonic without a “boom” earlier ...

On-board LIDAR measurements will provide information about the local atmosphere and will aide in the prediction of how loud the sonic boom will be just ahead of the aircraft. Small, distributed shape ...

If you've been keeping tabs on aviation news as of late, you saw that Boom Supersonic just recently broke the sound barrier with its XB-1 demonstrator aircraft. Oddly enough, no one on the ground ...

Boom Supersonic achieved its goal on Jan. 28 of breaking the sound barrier with the XB-1 prototype of its Overture aircraft. The company plans to manufacture the Overture at its $500 million ...

While some projects, including one at NASA, are working on changes to aircraft that would result in a less disruptive shock wave, these so-called low-boom technologies are far from proven.

Boom Supersonic's XB-1 demonstrator aircraft reached a major milestone on Jan. 28, when it broke the sound barrier for the first time during one of its test flights.

We visited Boom Supersonic's hangar in Mojave, California, as the company prepared to break the sound barrier with its XB-1 demonstrator aircraft. Jesse Orrall (he/him/his) is a Senior Video ...