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

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

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 ...

Taiwan's Ministry of National Defence stated that it detected one Chinese aircraft and six naval vessels around the island as of 6 am (UTC+8) on Saturday.

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 ...

The U.S. Air Force long has kept the same three bombers in rotation, but that will soon change. The United States has the most robust fleet of strategic bombers on Earth. For a generation, the U.S.

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 ...

Tuesday morning at Mojave Air & Space Port in California, almost 80 years after U.S. Air Force ace Chuck Yeager first ...

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