A sleek white aircraft has become the first independently developed jet to break the sound barrier. The XB-1 aircraft ...

Boom Supersonic plans to break the sound barrier during a test flight ... first supersonic passenger jet since the British-French Concorde, which was retired in 2003. "It will still be a few ...

Boom's dream of becoming a supersonic commercial airline is a step closer as its demonstrator model the XB-1 reached 844mph ...

American company Boom achieved a milestone Tuesday as its XB-1 aircraft exceeded the speed of sound for the first time during a supersonic test flight. The last flight of a supersonic airliner, ...

But a year later, the Supreme Court finally lifted the ban, stating it was not based on any precise noise requirements. British Airways also wanted to serve the London-Sydney route with Concorde ...

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

Although the Concorde was quickly limited to only being able to fly over the ocean due to its extreme amount of noise, NASA hopes that the X-59 and similar aircraft could fly over land if quiet ...

Boom Supersonic’s XB-1 jet broke the sound barrier for the first time on ... The XB-1 has been dubbed the “Son of Concorde,” referencing the supersonic plane that could fly from London ...

the speed of sound. The American-built civil supersonic jet is made from carbon fibre, and unlike Concorde’s droop nose, pilots use an “augmented reality vision system” to see past its long ...

The test flight took place in the same Mojave Desert area in California where Charles "Chuck" Yeager first broke the sound ...