When the experimental XB-1 aircraft achieved supersonic speeds on a test flight, it did not create a disruptive sonic boom – ...

Boom Supersonic made history today (Jan. 28) when its XB-1 jet broke the sound barrier for the first time. Boom Supersonic's ...

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

The experimental XB-1 aircraft ... runs before returning to land. The only aircraft currently able to reach supersonic speeds are military fighter jets and bombers. Although the fabled commercial ...

SON of Concorde' XB-1 jet ... commercial aircraft capable of supersonic flight since the Concorde. Aircraft that have reached those speeds have either been experimental planes or fighter jets.

It was shadowed by two former fighter jets that Boom uses to monitor the XB-1 during the test flights. Scholl said the next step is to scale up the technology used on the XB-1 for Boom’s ...

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 ...

Languages: English. During the XB-1's historic flight on Tuesday—its 12th test flight overall—the aircraft stayed supersonic for around four minutes before breaking the sound barrier two more ...

The flight was filmed and monitored by two different chase planes, a Dassault Mirage F1 fighter jet, and a Northrop T-38 Talon, the same aircraft NASA uses to train its astronauts. The XB-1 landed ...