NASA also collected data on the aircraft's acoustic signature at ... the first American-made civil supersonic jet breaking the sound barrier," said Blake Scholl, Founder and CEO of Boom Supersonic.

Boom Supersonic and NASA published a special photo taken during the flight of the XB-1 jet aircraft, which demonstrates the moment of breaking the sound barrier. To capture the iconic moment, the ...

NOVA: The obstacles to breaking the sound barrier were the aircraft design itself and the building of a propulsion capable of pushing a plane that fast. Would you say that those were equal challenges?

(Boom Supersonic/NASA via SWNS) By Dean Murray A "son of Concorde" aircraft that may one ... image shows Boom Supersonic's XB-1 jet breaking the sound barrier. The Colorado-based company says ...

existing aircraft can barely hope to come close to the breaking the sound barrier. Understandable, then, how such a machine can claim the title of fastest civilian aircraft since the Concorde ...