A sleek white aircraft has become the first independently developed jet to break the sound barrier. The XB-1 aircraft ...

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

About 35,000 feet (10,670 meters) over the Mojave Desert, northwest of Los Angeles, Boom Supersonic's XB-1 became the first ...

Boom Supersonic’s XB-1 aircraft has become the first independently developed jet to break the sound barrier, bringing ...

Boom Supersonic's XB-1 made history on Tuesday by becoming the first civil aircraft to break the sound barrier. Before ...

The test flight of the XB-1 aircraft is a step in manufacturer Boom Supersonic's goals of building a supersonic passenger jet.

An aircraft developed by Boom Supersonic became the first independently funded jet to break the sound barrier this week. The ...

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 ...

XB-1’s supersonic flight took place in the same historic airspace where Chuck Yeager broke the sound barrier for the first ...

American aerospace startup Boom made history on Tuesday by breaking the sound barrier during the test ... That's when Capt. Chuck Yeager and the Bell X-1 rocket-propelled aircraft broke the ...

Boom is convinced it can overcome the barriers that grounded the Concorde and make supersonic travel affordable and greener.