The Boom Supersonic aircraft exceeded Mach 1 after taking off from the Mojave Air and Space Port in California for its highly anticipated 12th test flight.

Boom Supersonic, the American company building what promises to be the world’s fastest airliner, broke the sound barrier for its first time with a test flight in Mojave, California, on Tuesday.

Ten months after its long-delayed first subsonic flight took place last March, Boom Supersonic’s prototype test plane, the XB-1, broke the sound barrier today three times during its 12th flight.

According to a Boom Supersonic blog on January 10, the 44-minute 11th test flight by Chief Test Pilot Tristan “Geppetto” Brandenburg, which reached Mach 0.95, was about taking XB-1 to a ...

Boom Supersonic plans to break the sound barrier during a test flight this morning (Jan. 28). This would mark the first time the company achieves the feat, and you can watch the historic action live.

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.

Boom Technology, the Colorado company working on building the next generation of supersonic jets, has chosen to develop and test its engines of the future just 30 miles north of its Centennial head… ...

The test aircraft will be retired after completing a handful of supersonic flights, Boom told FLYING. Overture is expected to fly at Mach 1.7, or just over 1,300 mph, a bit slower than Concorde.

Boom Supersonic's XB-1 made history on Tuesday by becoming the first civil aircraft to break the sound barrier. Why It Matters Before Tuesday, no civil private manufacturer had passed the sound ...

Boom Supersonic made history today (Jan. 28) when its XB-1 jet broke the sound barrier for the first time on a test flight over the American desert.

Boom had carried out 11 previous test flights on XB-1 since it first took to the skies in March, but Tuesday’s flight was the first to reach supersonic speeds, starting around 768 mph. The ...