A sleek white aircraft became the first independently developed jet to break the sound barrier Tuesday, tearing through the ...

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

Boom's Supersonic XB-1 jet became the “world’s first independently developed supersonic jet” to break the sound barrier ...

The single-seat jet, a 201-foot-long test model by Boom Supersonic, hit 844 mph just 12 minutes into its latest test flight ...

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

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

American aerospace startup Boom made history on Tuesday by breaking the sound barrier during the ... feet and accelerating to speed Mach 1.122, or about 750 mph, according to a press statement ...

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

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

Piloted by former US Navy aviator Tristan "Geppetto" Brandenburg, XB-1 took off from the Mojave Air and Space Port in ...

BOOM One month prior, the aircraft hit a top speed of only 728 mph, as before the latest test flight, the aircraft had not previously broken the sound barrier. BOOM The XB-1 is the prototype for ...