On January 28, 2025, the Boom Supersonic XB-1 test aircraft achieved a record speed of Mach 1.13 during a flight over the ...

Supersonic planes will burn significantly more fuel than current aircraft, resulting in higher emissions of carbon dioxide, ...

Boom Supersonic passed a major milestone Tuesday on its path to reintroduce supersonic commercial flights. After years of ...

Boom Supersonic is just hours away from performing the first supersonic flight of its XB-1 test plane. A successful test will take it a big step toward its goal of launching supersonic passenger ...

Boom Supersonic’s XB-1 jet broke the sound barrier for the first time on Monday as the latest test flight indicated the aircraft hit 844 mph out of California’s Mojave Air and Space Port.

in the X-1 aircraft in 1947. Reaching an altitude of 35,290 ft (19,756 m), the Boom XB-1 became not only the first commercial, piloted supersonic flight since Concorde retired in 2003, it was also ...

An aircraft developed by Boom Supersonic has become the first independently funded jet to break the sound barrier.

Tomorrow's flight of the 68-ft-long (21-m) XB-1 prototype will be conducted in a special air corridor reserved for supersonic aircraft. During the 38-minute flight at an altitude of 34.000 ft ...

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 sound barrier. The American startup's ...

Boom Supersonic CEO Blake Scholl said the Mach 1.7 Overture will keep the US aviation industry ahead of China in the ...

A supersonic jet built by Boom Technology broke the sound barrier for the first time Tuesday, advancing its bid to resurrect ...