Boom Supersonic’s XB-1 aircraft broke the sound barrier during three test runs, a step toward the possible return of ...

On this day in aviation history, January 19, 1946, the Bell X-1 high-speed research aircraft, made its first flight. While ...

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

Boom Supersonic has gone, well, supersonic, its XB-1 prototype breaking the sound barrier today in the skies over the Mojave Air & Space Port in California. With Chief Test Pilot Tristan Brandenburg ...

Boom Supersonic's XB-1 demonstrator plane just went supersonic in the skies over California's Mojave Desert, making it the first civil aircraft to break ...

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The location was symbolic, as it was the same California airspace where Chuck Yeager broke the sound barrier for the first time in 1947 in the Bell X-1, a rocket engine–powered aircraft that was ...

American company Boom achieved a milestone Tuesday as its XB-1 aircraft exceeded the speed of sound for the first time during a supersonic test flight. The last flight of a supersonic airliner, ...

Brandenburg teased a future demonstration that also involves NASA – possibly hinting at a future joint flight with both the XB-1 and NASA’s X-59 experimental aircraft. The X-59 is designed to ...

Tuesday’s XB-1 flight marks the first human-piloted civil supersonic flight since Concorde’s retirement more than 20 years ...