The company said the needle-nosed XB-1 “met all its test objectives” including reaching 7,120 feet and 273 mph. This is well short of the speed, 1,300 mph, at which Boom promises to eventually ...

The Boom XB-1 achieved this long-awaited feat during its 12th test flight, 35,290 feet above California's Mojave desert -- the same airspace where in 1947, Charles E. "Chuck" Yeager became the ...

Blake Scholl, Founder & CEO of Boom Supersonic, shares how he launched the company to building the future of flight with test flights and major airline deals. Epstein’s ex-girlfriend describes ...

The test involved supersonic planes from the U.S. Air Force that conducted flights over the Oklahoma City metro area in 1964. For six months, up to eight sonic booms each day were generated by ...

A flight monitor shows Boom Supersonic's XB-1 test plane hitting Mach 1.1 on Jan. 28, when it broke the sound barrier for the first time on its 12th test flight. Tristan Brandenburg, Boom's chief ...