The company planning to build the world’s fastest airliner at Piedmont Triad International Airport completed the first supersonic flight of its demonstrator aircraft on Tuesday at the Mojave Air & ...
Less than a year from the maiden flight, the first civil supersonic jet made by a private company aims to demonstrate technologies to pave the way for the return of supersonic airliners.
"Next, we are scaling up the technology on XB-1 for the Overture supersonic airliner," Scholl said. "Our ultimate goal is to bring the benefits of supersonic flight to everyone.” The commercial ...
This milestone follows 11 successful test flights since March 2024, with the XB-1 previously reaching Mach 0.95. This test flight is a critical step in developing Boom's Overture, a commercial ...
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 ...