The 1973 ban effectively put a full-stop on SST (supersonic transport) innovation and commercial development, including the promising Boeing 2707 prototype, Tupolev Tu-144, and of course, the ...

Its forthcoming airliner, Overture, draws directly from experience with the one-third-scale XB-1 demonstrator and will initially operate only over water, where today’s noise rules pose no obstacle.

Boom Overture Boom Supersonic, formed in 2014, has set about to make supersonic commercial flight common again. Buoyed by investments from airlines and private capital, the emerging jet maker has made ...

Nobody could be happier about this news right now than Boom Supersonic. The American start-up, founded in 2014 and headed by Blake Scholl, has been consistently critical of the ban throughout its ...

As Boom Supersonic steps up preparations for production of its $500 million Overture supersonic aircraft at Piedmont Triad International Airport, it is working through some financial and workforce ...

Boom’s response was to repeat its Sept. 8 comments: “Overture remains on track to carry passengers in 2029.” Debbage said the lack of an engine manufacturer could have been a major blow.

Boom Supersonic gives update on Greensboro NC factory that will build Overture plane after President Trump signs executive order to legalize supersonic flight.

The order will help clear the way for companies like Boom Supersonic, in its development of supersonic airliners, which it is building in Greensboro. The company opened its factory last year.

Boom Supersonic, the Colorado startup that aims to assemble passenger jets in North Carolina, celebrated President Donald Trump’s executive order Friday ending a 52-year-old ban on overland ...

Boom had planned to operate Overture at M0.94 in continental airspace, and only accelerate to M1.7 over water. But XB-1, it says, indicates that Overture could operate supersonically – and ...

By Boom’s own estimates, the Overture would burn two to three times more fuel per premium seat — first or business class — than a subsonic plane, such as the Airbus A350 or Boeing 787, on an ...