When planes exceed Mach 1 (the speed of sound, or about 767 miles per hour—1,234 kilometers/hour for those using the metric ...

Being a test pilot isn’t always the healthiest business in the world. [In the 1950s, test pilots were being killed at the ...

Thanks to upgraded engines and advanced computers that monitor weather in real time, Boom Supersonic achieved the holy grail ...

Not every experimental jet fighter made by the U.S. military would go on to reach production, for any number of reasons.

Two weeks ago, Boom Supersonic’s XB-1 demonstrator plane made history when it broke the sound barrier over the continental ...

Boom Supersonic’s XB-1 creates a sonic boom inaudible from the ground below when flying at the exact right speed and altitude ...

If you've been keeping tabs on aviation news as of late, you saw that Boom Supersonic just recently broke the sound barrier ...

Supersonic aircraft maker Boom Supersonic announced its XB-1 test plane managed to perform a Mach cutoff maneuver that makes boomless flight possible ...

Boom’s XB-1 reached Mach 1.112, after 10 years of planning and a year of flight tests. Up next: its Overture supersonic ...

XB-1’s supersonic flight, in the same airspace where Chuck Yeager broke the sound barrier, marks the first civil supersonic ...

Supersonic planes will burn significantly more fuel than current aircraft, resulting in higher emissions of carbon dioxide, ...

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 to break ...