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

The aerospace company put its technology to the test today, breaking the sound barrier and reviving the dream of supersonic ...

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

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

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 ...

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.

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.