However, the vast majority of flying today is still done subsonically, with aircraft flying at conventional speeds right around the sound barrier. Get all the latest aviation news from Simple Flying .

See Boom Supersonic's "refined" design of the Overture aircraft in this animated explainer. Credit: Boom Supersonic ...

XB-1 on a supersonic test flight. Credit: Boom Supersonic This limited the Concorde’s routes to flying over the Atlantic. The Overture promises to get around the prospect of sonic booms by ...

XB-1 on a supersonic test flight. Credit: Boom Supersonic This limited the Concorde’s routes to flying over the Atlantic. The Overture promises to get around the prospect of sonic booms by ...

For decades, supersonic commercial airline flight has been banned over land by global aviation law because of the problems the sonic boom can produce on the ground. That may change as early as ...

In a scientific paper published last month in the peer-reviewed journal Acta Aeronautica Sinica, Comac engineers detailed a Mach 1.6 aircraft capable of flying ... Overture and their idea of boom ...

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According to witness accounts provided to local outlet WPVI, at around 2:30 a.m. on Wednesday residents of the small town of Magnolia were awoken by a loud boom and bright flash. Nobody knew what ...