F rom the moment Chuck Yeager broke the sound barrier for the first time in 1947, zipping from New York to Paris in less than three hours became every traveler’s dream. It’s a dream that ...

Boom Supersonic achieved its goal on Jan. 28 of breaking the sound barrier with the XB-1 prototype of its Overture aircraft. The company plans to manufacture the Overture at its $500 million ...

Civil Jet Makes History by Breaking Sound Barrier. Published Jan 28, 2025 at 6:44 PM EST Updated Jan 28, 2025 at 10:11 PM EST. By . Jon Jackson is a News Editor at Newsweek based in New York.

Boom Supersonic's XB-1 demonstrator craft could become the first commercial jet to break the sound barrier since Concorde after acing its 11th test and reaching 0.95 Mach at low altitudes.

On Oct. 14, 1947, 75 years ago, Air Force test pilot Charles E. Yeager climbed into a Bell X-1 rocket plane and became the first human being to break the sound barrier in level flight.

However, they’re not breaking the sound barrier – here’s why. Strong jet streams across the Atlantic are seeing passenger airplanes knock more than an hour off their flight times, as they ...