The XB-1 aircraft accelerated to Mach 1.05 within about 11 minutes of taking off, according to Boom Supersonic and live video ...
A Carnegie Mellon University grad is behind the successful flight earlier this week of the first independently developed jet ...
Piloted by former US Navy aviator Tristan "Geppetto" Brandenburg, XB-1 took off from the Mojave Air and Space Port in ...
A sleek white aircraft became the first independently developed jet to break the sound barrier Tuesday ... fly faster than the speed of sound — typically about 760 mph (1,223 kph) near sea ...
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Boom Supersonic's XB-1 demonstrator jet broke the sound barrier at Mach 1.122, reaching an altitude of 35,290 feet at ...