Get all the latest aviation news from Simple Flying! While operational efficiencies significantly ... and Embraer (although this may change when the Boom Overture supersonic jet enters service). In ...

And that’s a relatively simple airplane. The Overture is a more complex ... And so the net cost of using Concorde means it was cheaper than the net cost of flying on a subsonic airplane. Boom and the ...

Boom Supersonic, on Tuesday, reached a new milestone in its work toward building the world’s fastest commercial airliner. The manufacturer's demonstrator aircraft for the highly anticipated Overture ...

Boom Supersonic now says Overture can avoid sonic booms, potentially opening up overland flights even at Mach 1 or higher.

A supersonic Boom Supersonic flight across the United States — beginning potentially as early as 2029 — could be at least 90 minutes quicker than current top flight speeds, while ...

Tuesday morning at Mojave Air & Space Port in California, almost 80 years after U.S. Air Force ace Chuck Yeager first eclipsed the sound barrier in a Bell X-1, an independently built jet reached ...

US aerospace firm Boom Supersonic is expecting to reach design freeze on the Overture supersonic passenger aircraft in about ...

Boom Supersonic is building the closet thing we have to the next Concorde. In this video, I'm going to show you the XB-1 test ...

Colorado-based company Boom ... Overture to carry its first passengers. Commercial supersonic flight has been on hiatus since Concorde was retired more than two decades ago after 27 years of flying.

Boom’s XB-1 demonstrator aircraft surpassed Mach 1 while flying at an altitude of 34,000 ... is a smaller prototype of Boom’s supersonic Overture, which has drawn 130 orders from customers ...

Boom says that airlines should generate a healthy profit on Overture by charging current business-class fares. Overture's overland flying, however, will top out near Mach .94—about 20% faster th ...