The film documents the historic flight of the X1 aircraft, piloted by Captain Chuck Yeager, on October 14, 1947, when he ...

Though the sound branch of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences merged the best sound editing and best sound ...

Boom Supersonic plans to build the world’s fastest airliner, Overture, and this week announced a breakthrough in the ...

When the experimental XB-1 aircraft achieved supersonic speeds on a test flight, it did not create a disruptive sonic boom – ...

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That speed is equivalent to 750 miles per hour. It marks the first time an independently developed jet has broken the sound barrier, Boom Supersonic said, and the plane is the "first supersonic ...

The test plane, flown by chief test pilot Tristan `Geppetto’ Brandenburg, pushed through the sound barrier at around 8:30am local time in a four-minute high speed run through a specially ...

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

If all goes well, the piloted demonstrator craft will exceed Mach 1 — the speed of sound — about 25 minutes later. The XB-1 is a subscale pathfinder vehicle, designed to demonstrate ...

Today (Jan. 28), the XB-1 took off from Mojave Air and Space Port in California and reached Mach 1.1 — equivalent to 1.1 times the speed of sound, or 844 mph (1,358 km/h). It reached this record ...

US-based flight developer Boom Supersonic has begun the final countdown to its first attempt at breaking the sound barrier with its XB-1 demonstrator ... will “bring XB-1 to a comfortable cruising ...