A Carnegie Mellon University grad is behind the successful flight earlier this week of the first independently developed jet ...

Faster planes require more fuel, and alternatives may not be the climate solution the industry hopes for. Boom Supersonic broke the sound barrier in a test flight of its XB-1 jet last week ...

Less than a year from the maiden flight, the first civil supersonic jet made by a private company aims to demonstrate ...

American company Boom Supersonic just broke the sound barrier with a civilian plane. What exactly is supersonic travel, and ...

An aircraft developed by Boom Supersonic has become the first independently funded jet to break the sound barrier.

in the X-1 aircraft in 1947. Reaching an altitude of 35,290 ft (19,756 m), the Boom XB-1 became not only the first commercial, piloted supersonic flight since Concorde retired in 2003, it was also ...

American aerospace startup Boom Supersonic achieved a historic milestone by breaking the sound barrier with its XB-1 ...

From there, Boom Supersonic’s Chief Test Pilot Tristan “Geppetto” Brandenburg ascended in the experimental plane to an altitude of 34,000 ft before turning left and beginning its supersonic ...

Boom designed, built, and flew the world's first independently developed supersonic jet—the first civil supersonic jet made in America. Boom Supersonic makes aviation history as XB-1 breaks the ...

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