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

XB-1 first flew in March 2024 and has been “steadily increasing speeds” over 11 test flights but never beyond Mach 1 (770 mph) – the speed of sound. The American-built civil supersonic jet ...

The XB-1 aircraft accelerated to Mach 1.05 within about 11 minutes of taking off, according to Boom Supersonic and live video of the test flight. The flight at the Mojave Air & Space Port in ...

A sleek white aircraft became the first independently developed jet to break the sound barrier Tuesday, tearing through the air tens of thousands of feet above the Mojave Desert and a crowd of ...

Boom Supersonic's XB-1 made history on Tuesday by becoming the first civil aircraft to break the sound barrier. Before Tuesday, no civil private manufacturer had passed the sound barrier with an ...

A US Air Force pilot safely escaped after an F-35 fighter jet crashed during a training mission at Eielson Air Force Base in Alaska on Tuesday, officials said. The pilot experienced an “inflight ...

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 aircraft has become the first independently developed jet to break the sound barrier, bringing supersonic passenger planes (back) closer to reality. Reaching over 35,000 ...