Imagine a bomber so fast it could outrun any fighter jet, soaring at Mach 3 speeds across continents. The XB-70 Valkyrie was this dream made real, pushing engineering to new heights. But its path was ...

The North American Aviation XB-70 Valkyrie was one of the first supersonic bombers to be built after the Second World War. Designed and constructed in the mid-1950s ...

Here’s What You Need to Know: A couple T-4 variants were proposed, but the Soviet government didn’t bite. In 1963, the Department of Defense canceled procurement of the XB-70 Valkyrie, a ...

Revolutionary XB-1 Aircraft Achieves First Supersonic Flight. Commercial aircraft will soon be ready to break the sound barrier again as Boom Supersonic's demonstrator aircraft, the XB-1, has made its ...

Piedmont Triad Airport Authority (PTI) congratulated the company on the supersonic flight of their XB-1 demonstrator aircraft on Wednesday. The company's manufacturing plant is near PTI.

Boom’s XB-1 exceeded Mach 1 three times during its Jan. 28 flight. Credit: Boom Supersonic Breaking the sound barrier in a privately developed civil aircraft is a significant aviation milestone ...

The delivery of this F-16 Block 70 aircraft marks a first step in the Bulgarian air force’s modernisation efforts and the replacement of its MiG-29 aircraft. Lockheed Martin has announced the delivery ...

Reporting Q4 results, Embraer said its business jets division backlog was 70%... Bill covers business aviation and advanced air mobility for Aviation Week Network. A former newspaper reporter ...

Boom Supersonic's XB-1 is the first civilian aircraft to achieve the feat since the British-French supersonic airliner, which was retired in 2003. The XB-1 broke the sound barrier for the first ...

The experimental XB-1 aircraft, made by US company Boom Supersonic, flew faster than the speed of sound on 28 January. The achievement is the first time any civil aircraft has gone supersonic over ...

On Jan. 28, Boom Supersonic (Denver, Colo., U.S.) achieved the successful first supersonic flight of its XB-1 demonstrator aircraft at the Mojave Air & Space Port in California. The aircraft, which ...