During each liftoff and landing, several factors are in play affecting the intensity and duration of each sonic boom.

Boom hopes its breakthrough will allow supersonic flights over land, making US coast-to-coast flights 90 minutes faster.

Boom Supersonic announced Monday that its airliner could fly above Mach 1 without producing a sonic boom audible from the ground. As Concorde could only fly supersonic over water, this discovery ...

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While the plane’s engines were still audible on the ground, surpassing the Mach cutoff ensured no one heard a disruptive sonic boom. According to the company’s February 10th announcement ...

You might be wondering why this is news. Since Chuck Yeager’s first sonic boom in 1947, thousands of military aircraft have broken the sound barrier. Even some civilian aircraft have done it: the ...

Flight experts say in ideal conditions, a sonic boom can be heard up to 30 miles away from the source. It’s not clear where the sonic boom created by the X-1 will be heard, but the test flight ...

Boom’s plans for overwater flights by Overture—a delta-winged airliner that will accommodate from 64 to 80 business-class passengers—still involve cruising at up to Mach 1.7. Those speeds ...

Making supersonic flight economically sustainable is arguably an even harder challenge than figuring out how to nullify the sonic boom’s disruptive effects on the ground. Supersonic travel has ...

(Photo by John Keeble/Getty Images) In the meantime as with Concorde, the XB-1 test model can’t fly supersonic over land in the U.S. because of the powerful sonic boom. Today’s test over ...