The single-seat, three-engine jet is the first independently developed plane to exceed Mach 1 in level flight.

Boom Supersonic's XB-1 demonstrator craft could become the first commercial jet to break the sound barrier since Concorde ...

The aerospace company put its technology to the test today, breaking the sound barrier and reviving the dream of supersonic ...

Today a civil test airliner, Boom Technology’s XB-1, broke the sound barrier for the first time in two decades.

XB-1’s supersonic flight took place in the same historic airspace where Chuck Yeager broke the sound barrier for the first time in 1947, among many other historic firsts. The first supersonic ...

94—about 20% faster than today’s airliners—to comply with a federal ban on civil supersonic flight meant to limit sonic booms. Boom aims to roll out its first Overture from its Greensboro ...

Boom Supersonic CEO Blake Scholl said the Mach 1.7 Overture will keep the US aviation industry ahead of China in the ...

The Colorado-based company is aiming to build a Concorde-like supersonic aircraft—but has hurdles to clear before realizing ...

Boom Supersonic has gone, well, supersonic, its XB-1 prototype breaking the sound barrier today in the skies over the Mojave Air & Space Port in California. With Chief Test Pilot Tristan Brandenburg ...

Boom Supersonic plans to break the sound barrier during a test flight this morning (Jan. 28). This would mark the first time ...

The countdown has begun for the XB-1’s “historic” first supersonic test flight that should break the sound barrier, according ...

An aircraft developed by Boom Supersonic has become the first independently funded jet to break the sound barrier.