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

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

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 ...

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

The aircraft’s shape would stifle the sonic boom, making it sound more like the thunk of a car door. If a pilot study confirms that NASA’s design successfully reduces the disruptive effects ...

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.

Ash, smoke, and a chemical smell rained on Elizabeth Griffin in the parking lot of the Northeast Philadelphia T-Mobile on ...

Boom Supersonic's XB-1 demonstrator craft could become the first commercial jet to break the sound barrier since Concorde ... until we inevitably make that sonic boom," Nick Sheryka, c hief ...

When an airplane surpasses the speed of sound, it is said to be supersonic ... It is not just airplanes that create a “ sonic boom” but anything that exceeds the speed of sound such as a bullet.

Boom Supersonic's XB-1 demonstrator aircraft soared past the speed of sound in a test flight on Tuesday—the first time a plane has accomplished ... meant to limit sonic booms.

10, the XB-1 completed a sustained flight at 728 mph (1,172 km/h) — equivalent to Mach 0.95, which is just shy of the speed of sound ... inevitably make that sonic boom," Nick Sheryka, c ...