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Welcome to Up to Speed, a monthly recap of news from Boom Supersonic. This month, we look at how the Overture Superfactory in Greensboro, North Carolina continues toward construction completion,…
Boom Supersonic’s mission is to make the world dramatically more accessible. Flying at twice the speed of today’s passenger airliners onboard Overture, the world’s fastest airliner – optimized for…
The Jet Age transformed the way the world travels by unlocking new destinations like Hawaii and enabling frequent travel between Europe and the United States. However, travel time remains a…
Welcome to Up to Speed, a monthly recap of news from Boom Supersonic. Just last month we announced the successful flight of XB-1, the world’s first independently developed supersonic jet, at the…
With the right preparation and planning, pilots gain convenient access to some of the most hard-to-reach corners of the earth with a pilot license. Regardless of what personally inspires a pilot…
On March 22nd, Chief Flight Test Engineer Nick Sheryka was leading his teams in the control room as XB-1 successfully executed its inaugural flight . As one of Boom’s first employees to work on…
In 2023, Boom signed a structural supplier agreement with Aernnova to design and develop the wing structure for Overture. Based in Spain and one of the world’s largest tier-one aerospace…
There have only been two civil supersonic airliners to enter regular service: the Soviet Tupolev Tu-144 and the British-French Concorde, which flew for the last time more than two decades ago in…
Today, XB-1 secured the first-ever Special Flight Authorization (SFA) to Exceed Mach 1 from the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA). XB-1 test flights will continue to be conducted in the R-2508…
