American company Boom Supersonic just broke the sound barrier with a civilian plane. What exactly is supersonic travel, and ...

These disturbances move at the speed of sound ... off Concorde was designed in the 1960s when it seemed like supersonic passenger transport was going to be the next big thing.

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(Boom Supersonic via AP) BRISBANE: Late last week, American company Boom Supersonic flew faster than the speed of sound with its XB-1 supersonic demonstrator aircraft. It’s now the first piloted ...

(CNN) — Last week, American company Boom Supersonic flew faster than the speed of sound with its XB-1 supersonic demonstrator aircraft. It’s now the first piloted non-military aircraft to ...

in a flight over southern California and exceeded the speed of sound for a few minutes. “XB-1’s supersonic flight demonstrates that the technology for passenger supersonic flight has arrived ...

Boom Supersonic's XB-1 became the first privately funded plane to surpass the sound barrier over the Mojave Desert. Reaching ...

The Boom XB-1 single-seat supersonic ... the speed is to be reduced to 0.94 Mach to avoid the loud sonic boom when breaking the sound barrier. The Overture will be able to transport up to 80 ...

The XB-1 demonstrator has broken the speed of sound, hitting Mach 1.1. It is the first civil supersonic aircraft in US history and the first to do so since Concorde was retired in 2003. That was an ...

The return of supersonic travel has been remarkably slow for something faster than the speed of sound, but a major milestone is set to be hit on January ...

Boom Supersonic's XB-1 demonstrator jet became the first U.S.-made civilian supersonic jet to break the sound barrier. The independently funded XB-1 reached a speed of Mach 1.122, or about 750 mph ...