Her pitch: There’s up to 2.5 million acre-feet of untapped water in the Mojave Desert her company can move and store across the arid Southwest.

Travelers along Interstate 40 are being made aware of the temporary closure of the John Wilkie Safety Roadside Rest Area in the Mojave Desert. Caltrans crews continue the rehabilitation project at ...

Concorde carried around 100 passengers and Overture is designed for 64 to 80 passengers, and it would be a foot shorter. The company has said Overture is on track to fly, and even carry passengers ...

Last month, the XB-1 broke the sound barrier over the Mojave Desert. The event positions Boom Supersonic to produce the first supersonic airliner since the Concorde was grounded in 2003.

The aircraft's chief test pilot Tristan 'Geppetto' Brandenburg was able to position the XB-1 at an exact time – and in an exact location – over the Mojave Desert. This allowed Nasa to snap the ...

An incredible image shows Boom Supersonic's XB-1 jet breaking the sound barrier. The Colorado-based company says specialized photography from NASA shows the shock waves as Boom’s supersonic ...

A newly released image shows the sound barrier being broken on February 10 as Boom Supersonic’s XB-1, America’s first civil supersonic jet, completed its second supersonic flight.

Dubbed "son of Concorde", the XB-1 ascended to an altitude of 35,000 ft over the Mojave desert in California before cranking the "accelerator" to reach Mach 1.1 – around 844 mph and equivalent ...

While the cost of the Tu-144 is opaque due to the nature of the Soviet Union's economy, the Concorde cost the U.K. and France approximately $16 billion ($1.44 billion each in 1976).

More than 20 years since the final Concorde flight, is a small US start-up now on course to bring back supersonic air travel? TIM ROBINSON FRAeS and JOE COLES debrief Boom’s XB-1 test pilot and ...