Passenger flight, Air Force jet diverted from potential collision at DC airportDelta Air Lines Flight 2983, preparing to depart from Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport, was alerted to a possible collision with i...
29 Mar, 2025, 06.09 PM IST
Boom Tech’s XB-1 becomes first privately developed jet plane to break the sound barrierBoom plans to focus next on the Overture airliner, which it says will carry as many as 80 passengers while moving at about twice the speed ...
30 Jan, 2025, 12.41 AM IST
Get ready to travel anywhere in the world in 4 hours for only $100Supersonic flights are set to make a comeback with Boom Supersonic's XB-1 and NASA's X-59 preparing for tests. The XB-1 aims to break the s...
28 Jan, 2025, 09.50 PM IST
23 years ago on July 25 Concorde crashed killing all 109 on board; marked the end of an era in supersonic air travelIn 2000, tragedy struck as an Air France Concorde, en route to New York, crashed shortly after takeoff near Paris. The devastating accident...
25 Jul, 2023, 04.28 PM IST
London to New York in less than four hours! All you need to knowBoom's jets are extremely quick, but they can't match the speed of the fabled Concorde, which reached a speed of Mach 2.04. Due to a series...
17 Aug, 2022, 03.43 PM IST
American Airlines to buy supersonic jets as it bets on ultra-fast travelAMERICAN AIRLINE-BOOM SUPERSONIC/ (UPDATE 2, PIX)UPDATE 2-American Airlines to buy supersonic jets as it bets on ultra-fast travel
16 Aug, 2022, 06.35 PM IST
United Airlines unveils plan to revive supersonic jet travelUnited Airlines announced plans on Thursday to buy 15 planes from airline startup Boom Supersonic in a move that could revive the high-spee...
05 Jun, 2021, 08.14 AM IST
Virgin seeks to revive supersonic commercial flight - but fasterThe aircraft would travel at Mach 3 -- rather than the Mach 2 speed of Concorde, the pioneering jet that operated from 1976 to 2003.
03 Aug, 2020, 08.13 PM IST
Supersonic airlines are coming back while Elon Musk dreams of spaceAir travel in the future will be divided among legacy carriers, supersonic startups, and rockets.
06 Oct, 2017, 07.58 PM IST
Delhi to New York in 5 hours? PossibleDespite the challenges Boom faces, and they are many, aviation experts expect that at some point, years from now, the economic challenges o...
30 Nov, 2016, 12.24 PM IST
The fastest supersonic passenger airliner Boom XB-1, to be launched in 2017The XB-1 is powered by three General Electric J85-21 turbojet engines, fed by two variable geometry supersonic intakes.
28 Nov, 2016, 09.22 AM IST
How a speed demon took off: Flying on the ConcordeA decade after the retirement of the jet, we remember the awesome experience that was flying on the supersonic jet liner.
23 Feb, 2016, 03.06 PM IST
Airbus patented a jet that could fly from London to New York in 1 hourIn addition, Airbus predicts the patented craft will be able to complete trips like Paris to San Francisco or Tokyo to Los Angeles in just ...
04 Aug, 2015, 11.41 AM IST
Supersonic jet could fly from New York to London in 3 hoursSpike Aerospace claims the S-512 could reach a maximum speed of Mach 1.8 (2,205 km/h), which is 1.8 times the speed of sound.
12 Jul, 2015, 03.05 PM IST
NASA aims to develop 'eco-friendly' supersonic aircraftNASA said that supersonic jets travel at higher altitudes than regular jets, so they have a greater potential to damage the ozone layer.
08 Jun, 2015, 05.21 PM IST
- User fee to be cut on shorter flights
Ministry working on new formula for Hyderabad, Bangalore airports.
19 Mar, 2008, 12.00 AM IST
- ExecuJet, Aerion secure $400 mn orders for SSBJ from India
Swiss aviation company ExecuJet in association with the US-based engineering firm Aerion Corporation has secured five orders for supersonic...
11 Mar, 2008, 08.54 PM IST