The Vickers Swallow was decades ahead of its time—but it never left the drawing board. Designed in the 1950s as both a ...

MOJAVE, California—High-speed airliner developer Boom took a major leap toward the development of its Mach 1.7 Overture ...

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

Today’s a day I’ve been looking forward to for more than a decade,” said Blake Scholl, Boom's visionary founder and chief ...

becoming the first supersonic civil aircraft in U.S. history. Today (Jan. 28), the XB-1 took off from Mojave Air and Space Port in California and reached Mach 1.1 — equivalent to 1.1 times the ...

Boom Supersonic's XB-1 demonstrator craft could become the first commercial jet to break the sound barrier since Concorde ...

Boom Supersonic’s XB-1 jet broke the sound barrier for the first time on Monday as the latest test flight indicated the aircraft hit 844 mph out of California’s Mojave Air and Space Port.

The experimental XB-1 aircraft, made by US company Boom Supersonic, flew faster than the speed of sound on 28 January. The achievement is the first time any civil aircraft has gone supersonic over ...

Boom Supersonic's XB-1 demonstrator plane just went supersonic in the skies over California's Mojave Desert, making it the first civil aircraft to break the sound barrier. The American startup's ...

The XB-1 prototype accelerated smoothly to reach as fast as Mach 1.11 at about 35,000 feet at 11:33 a.m., 11:38 a.m. and ...

The test flight for the Boom Supersonic XB-1, a prototype aircraft that many tout as the Concorde’s successor, will be livestreamed at 6:45 a.m. PST on Tuesday, Jan. 28, 2025, from Mojave north ...

Boom Supersonic’s XB-1 demonstrator plane just went supersonic in the skies over California’s Mojave Desert, making it the first civil aircraft to break the sound barrier. The American startup ...