More than two decades after the retirement of the Concorde, American aircraft company Boom Supersonic has achieved supersonic ...

Boom Supersonic, the company building the world's fastest airliner, Overture, today announced the successful first supersonic ...

Flown by Boom Supersonic’s chief test pilot, Tristan “Geppetto” Brandenburg, the aircraft called XB-1 reached an altitude of 35,290 feet before accelerating to Mach 1.122, or 750 mph ...

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

The Boom XB-1 civil supersonic aircraft has broken the sound barrier for the first time. Boom Supersonic is already planning ...

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Piloted by former US Navy aviator Tristan "Geppetto" Brandenburg, XB-1 took off from the Mojave Air and Space Port in ...

Boom Supersonic’s XB-1 demonstrator plane just went supersonic in the skies over California’s Mojave Desert, making it the first civil aircraft to break the sound barrier. The American startup ...

A sleek white aircraft became the first independently developed jet to break the sound barrier Tuesday, tearing through the ...