The unpiloted Aurora lifted off from a conventional runway at the Tāwhaki National Aerospace Centre in New Zealand, ...

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.

A new executive order repeals a 52-year-old ban on commercial supersonic flights, while new technology can make supersonic ...

NASA's recently-retired SOFIA airborne observatory aircraft, the "flying telescope," also called Plant 42 home. The agency's ...

The company’s XB-1 demonstrator aircraft’s supersonic flight is the first time an independently developed jet has broken the sound barrier. The XB-1, which has now completed 12 successful test flights ...

Boom Supersonic's XB-1 jet went out in style on Monday (Feb. 10). The XB-1 broke the sound barrier three times during its 13th and final test flight, which lifted off Monday from the Mojave Air ...

NASA scientists are advancing supersonic parachutes with advanced sensors to make it more reliable and safer at delivering ...

The XB-1 aircraft accelerated to Mach 1.05 at about 35,000 feet during a test flight Tuesday in the same Mojave Desert airspace in California where Charles “Chuck” Yeager was the first person ...

GREENSBORO, N.C. — Boom Supersonic’s XB-1 took its last test flight on Monday. The aircraft started its flight around 1:30 p.m. on Feb. 10. It was the 13th and final flight for the aircraft.

GREENSBORO, N.C. (WGHP) — The airport that is the home of Boom Supersonic’s Overture facility is congratulating them on a successful flight. PTI extended their congratulations to Boom Superso… ...

The fastest speed the XB-1 had reached prior to the January 28 flight was Mach 0.95, just below the supersonic threshold of Mach 1, which it hit during its last test flight on January 10.