Did one engineer’s design decision reshape the history of American naval airpower? At the end of the Cold War, the United ...

Boom Supersonic has achieved the first supersonic flight of its X-B1 demonstrator aircraft, heralding a major step forward in the development of its Concorde-like Overture plane. Tuesday’s XB-1 ...

Boom Supersonic has completed the second test flight of its XB-1 supersonic demonstrator. On August 26, 2024, the prototype aircraft took off with Chief Test Pilot Tristan Brandenburg at the ...

The flight—piloted by Tristan "Geppetto" Brandenburg, Chief Test Pilot for Boom Supersonic—reached an altitude of 35,290 feet before accelerating to Mach 1.122 or approximately 750 mph. ... The ...

Boom Supersonic is one step closer to launching the spiritual heir to the Concorde. The US firm's XB-1 prototype reached a transonic speed of Mach 0.95 during Test Flight 11 on January 10, 2025 ...

On Jan. 28, Boom Supersonic (Denver, Colo., U.S.) achieved the successful first supersonic flight of its XB-1 demonstrator aircraft at the Mojave Air & Space Port in California. The aircraft, which ...

On January 28, the company’s XB-1 demonstrator achieved supersonic flight three times with no audible sonic boom measured on the ground. That paves the way for quiet travel at the speed of sound ...

Boom Supersonic, provided The Boom Supersonic’s XB-1 aircraft breaks the sound barrier, Mach 1, during a Jan. 28 test flight over the Mohave Desert, Calif. Boom Supersonic ...

Boom Supersonic, the company building the world’s fastest airliner, Overture, today announced the successful flight of XB-1, the world’s first independently developed supersonic jet, at the ...

Boom Supersonic, the company building the world’s fastest airliner, Overture, today announced the successful first supersonic flight of its XB-1 demonstrator aircraft at the Mojave Air & Space ...

NASA’s X-59 quiet supersonic research aircraft sits on the apron outside Lockheed Martin’s Skunk Works facility in Palmdale, California, on Dec. 12, 2023. The X-59 is the centerpiece of NASA ...

Boom Supersonic issued the prediction after what it deemed a successful test flight Aug. 26 from the Mojave Air & Space Port. The company's test plane, called XB-1, extended and retracted its ...