Credit: Boom Supersonic/Cover Images Commercial aircraft will soon be ready to break the sound barrier again as Boom ...

The American company Boom Supersonic has successfully conducted the first supersonic flight of its XB-1 aircraft in California, breaking the sound barrier by reaching a speed exceeding 1,382 ...

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 ...

The Boom Supersonic aircraft exceeded Mach 1 after taking off from the Mojave Air and Space Port in California for its highly ...

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

As of May 2024, the company has raised over $700 million and has sold 15 supersonic aircraft to United Airlines (with the option to buy 35 more) and 20 to American Airlines.

The only aircraft currently able to reach supersonic speeds are military fighter ... passengers on them in 2029 – and airlines like United and American have already placed orders.

Tuesday’s test flight occurred in airspace called the Bell X-1 Supersonic Corridor – named after the first plane that broke the sound barrier, as per The Verge. The American-built XB-1 demonstrator ...

Boom, the American company building what promises to be the world's fastest airliner, broke the sound barrier for its first ...

marking the first time a civil aircraft has gone supersonic over the continental United States. "This is such a huge step, building the first civil supersonic jet, you know, right here in America ...

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

An aircraft developed by Boom Supersonic has become the first independently funded jet to break the sound barrier.