The XB-1 broke the sound barrier three times during its 13th and final test flight, which lifted off Monday from the Mojave ...

Tuesday’s XB-1 flight marks the first human-piloted civil supersonic flight since Concorde’s retirement more than 20 years ago, and paves the way for the return of commercial supersonic flights aboard ...

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

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

By achieving a top speed of Mach 1.1, Boom Supersonic has broken records and is on course to revive supersonic passenger ...

Almost 22 years after Concorde made its final commercial flights, a prototype passenger jet is attempting to break the sound ...

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A supersonic jet built by US company Boom has broken the sound barrier for the first time since the Concorde during a test flight. Boom's Supersonic XB-1 demonstrator is the first civil aircraft to ...

The countdown has begun for the XB-1’s “historic” first supersonic test flight that should break the sound barrier, according to Boom Supersonic. The test flight for the Boom Supersonic XB-1, a ...

It is the first civil aircraft to break the sound barrier since Concorde, which retired in 2003. Pilot “Geppetto” has parked outside the hangar and appeared to smile as the ground crew get to ...

The mission lasted for less than one hour, but saw XB-1 break the sound barrier two ... and fly a supersonic aircraft, but the last craft to ever hit the speed since Concorde was retired in ...

Despite the love it received from the public, Concorde ... sound barrier, but they tend to be much more fuel-efficient. Boom has made some positive noises around the sustainability of its aircraft ...