On February 10, in the skies above the Mojave Desert, the Boom Supersonic XB-1 test jet roared past Mach 1, tearing through the sound barrier. But this time, there was no need to take it on faith.

Boom Supersonic and NASA just dropped an incredible photo of the XB-1 breaking the sound barrier over the Mojave Desert. Using Schlieren photography, they captured air distortions that are usually ...

Boom Supersonic broke the sound barrier in late January with its XB-1 test jet, paving the way forward in the startup's efforts to build its own supersonic airliner.

Software then calculates how each spot moved and reconstructs the shockwave into a Schlieren image." The result is a neat visualization of the jet breaking the sound barrier. XB-1 jet going ...

Having successfully demonstrated supersonic flight with no associated boom at ground level, Boom Supersonic is continuing to develop a commercial sound-barrier-breaking aircraft, dubbed Overture ...