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 ...

Here’s What You Need to Remember: Only two of the enormous XB-70 bombers were ever built; one resides in a museum in Ohio, the other was destroyed in a collision in ...

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 ...

Boom Supersonic's XB-1 demonstrator craft could become the first commercial jet to break the sound barrier since Concorde after acing its 11th test and reaching 0.95 Mach at low altitudes.

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 ...

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 ...

As a part of the Overture's development process, Boom Technology has developed another aircraft called the Boom XB-1. A compact version of the full-fledged passenger plane, the Boom XB-1 is ...

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 ...

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He said he hopes now to “bring the benefits of supersonic flight to everyone”. “XB-1’s supersonic flight demonstrates that the technology for passenger supersonic flight has arrived,” he ...