This week, a sleek white jet became the first privately built aircraft to fly faster than sound, soaring high above the Mojave Desert as a crowd watched in excitement ...

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

An American civil aircraft broke the sound barrier for the first time in California’s Mojave Desert, a US aviation company announced on Wednesday.

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The test flight took place in the same Mojave Desert area in California where Charles "Chuck" Yeager first broke the sound ...

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A sleek white aircraft has become the first independently developed jet to break the sound barrier. A sleek white aircraft ...

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The XB-1 breakthrough is seen as a major advancement in the development of Boom’s commercial passenger aircraft, the Overture ...