American company Boom Supersonic flew faster than the speed of sound with its XB-1 supersonic demonstrator aircraft. It’s now ...

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Boom's Supersonic XB-1 jet became the “world’s first independently developed supersonic jet” to break the sound barrier ...

When people say you can see a fighter jet before you hear it, they’re referring to supersonic flight: fighter jets can travel at around Mach 2. For efficiency reasons, most passenger jets cruise ...

Boom Supersonic broke the sound barrier in a ... commercial operation with a scaled-up version of the XB-1, a 65-passenger jet called Overture, before the end of the decade, and it has already ...

Commercial supersonic jets could grace the skies once again after Boom Supersonic's XB-1 jet broke the sound barrier in test ...

“There’s a long, long, long way to go between this test flight and building that supersonic passenger jet,” he said. “And then the other question about the supersonic transport ...

A Carnegie Mellon University grad is behind the successful flight earlier this week of the first independently developed jet ...

An aircraft developed by Boom Supersonic became the first independently funded jet to break the sound barrier this week. The ...