Boom’s demonstrator aircraft, XB-1, successfully completed its first supersonic flight on January 28, 2025, at the Mojave Air & Space Port in California. This marks the world’s first independently ...

The XB-1 departed on its 13 th and final flight on 10 February, carrying out its second set of tests at supersonic speed during a 41min sortie. It had been aiming for a target speed of Mach 1.14.

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.

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 ...

MOJAVE — Boom Supersonic will attempt its second supersonic flight on Monday, nearly two weeks after its first successful foray through the sound barrier. The XB-1, the company’s technology ...

When people say you can see a fighter jet before you hear it, they’re referring to supersonic flight: fighter jets can travel ...

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Hot on the heels of its milestone supersonic flight with its demonstrator aircraft, XB-1, Boom Supersonic has another surprise up its sleeve. During the demonstration flight on January 28, 2025, the ...

Boom Supersonic, a company working to develop passenger aircraft capable of traveling faster than the speed of sound, announced that its planes will be able to fly at supersonic speeds without the ...

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 ...

(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 ...