An aircraft developed by Boom Supersonic became the first independently funded jet to break the sound barrier this week. The XB-1 aircraft accelerated to Mach 1.05 at about 35,000 feet during a test f ...

Breaking the sound barrier occurs at 761 mph. The manufacturer reached a key milestone June 17 with the construction completion of its $500 million “superfactory” at Piedmont Triad ...

A sleek white aircraft became the first independently developed jet to break the sound barrier on Tuesday, Jan. 28, tearing through the air tens of thousands of feet above the Mojave Desert and a ...

There were more sighs of relief than “I told you so” in the aftermath of Boom Supersonic’s XB-1 prototype aircraft breaking ... jet made in America has broken the sound barrier.

SIDI YAHYA ZAER, Morocco (AP) — Mbarka Moullablad’s family frowned when she first told them she planned to make a living as a cheikha, singing about love, pain, and societal change to the ...

The flight on January 28 happened in the same airspace where, in 1947, Chuck Yeager became the first person to break the sound barrier in his bright orange Bell X-1 rocket plane. MOJAVE, California: ...

The medical transport jet crash on Jan. 31 killed seven, including a child. The black box from the medical transport jet that crashed in Philadelphia Friday evening is on its way to Washington ...

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