Tuesday morning at Mojave Air & Space Port in California, almost 80 years after U.S. Air Force ace Chuck Yeager first eclipsed the sound barrier in a Bell X-1, an independently built jet reached ...

Boom Supersonic's XB-1 aircraft broke the sound barrier during a test flight in California. The company conducted its 12th test flight of the demonstrator aircraft, pushing the limits as it was ...

Boom Supersonic’s XB-1 aircraft broke the sound barrier for the first time ever on Tuesday, ushering in a new era of supersonic flight. The jet exceeded Mach 1 after taking off from the Mojave ...

Boom Supersonic passed a major milestone Tuesday on its path to reintroduce supersonic commercial flights. After years of testing and refinement, a pilot flying the aerospace company’s XB-1 ...

Boom Supersonic, a company working to develop passenger aircraft capable of traveling faster than the speed of sound, announced that its planes will be able to fly at supersonic speeds without the ...

Boom Supersonic's XB-1 test vehicle is scheduled to lift off today (Jan. 28) at 11 a.m. EST (1600 GMT). Editor's note: Boom Supersonic successfully broke the sound barrier with the XB-1 today in a ...

Ten months after its long-delayed first subsonic flight took place last March, Boom Supersonic’s prototype test plane, the XB-1, broke the sound barrier today three times during its 12th flight.

An icon in the shape of a lightning bolt. Impact Link A startup wants to revive the era of the supersonic Concorde for the generations of flyers that missed out — but without the noisy boom and ...

What just happened? You might not be familiar with Boom Supersonic, but the startup has just set a notable world first: its XB-1 demonstrator became the first privately developed aircraft to break ...

Boom’s test pilot Tristan “Geppetto” Brandenburg briefly outlined the plans for next week’s test flight: “Our first supersonic flight will be Mach 1.1. There is quite a bit of ...

MOJAVE, Calif. and DENVER, Jan. 29, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- Boom Supersonic, the company building the world's fastest airliner, Overture, today announced the successful first supersonic flight of its ...

MOJAVE, Calif. (WGHP) — Boom Supersonic broke the sound barrier again Monday, after a successful flight last month. On Feb. 10, Boom Supersonic performed another supersonic flight with its ...