The F-100 Super Sabre wasn’t just fast—it was the first US jet to break the sound barrier and the most flown aircraft of the ...

Amid efforts to lift a ban on supersonic flight over US soil, plane developer Boom says it’s getting closer to creating ...

Prepare to be amazed by the top 10 planes that have conquered the sound barrier, redefining the limits of speed and ...

During the XB-1's historic flight on Tuesday—its 12th test flight overall—the aircraft stayed supersonic for around four minutes before breaking the sound barrier two more times during the ...

Boom Supersonic's XB-1 has successfully broken the sound barrier, 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 ...

The test flight for the Boom Supersonic XB-1, a prototype aircraft that many tout as ... developed supersonic jet” will break the sound barrier in the Bell X-1 Supersonic Corridor and the ...

The sound barrier was first broken on Oct. 14, 1947, according to the U.S. Air Force. That's when Capt. Chuck Yeager and the Bell X-1 rocket-propelled aircraft broke the sound barrier.

For over 50 years, the United States has imposed a speed limit in the skies: a federal ban that prohibits civilian aircraft from exceeding the speed of sound over land. The primary concern? Sonic ...

More than two decades later, a civil aircraft has broken the sound barrier once again. Dawn Aerospace, the developer of what it describes as a rocket-powered spaceplane, on Tuesday announced it ...

If you've been keeping tabs on aviation news as of late, you saw that Boom Supersonic just recently broke the sound barrier with its XB-1 demonstrator aircraft. Oddly enough, no one on the ground ...

The XB-1 broke the sound barrier two additional times during its ... the company has raised over $700 million and has sold 15 supersonic aircraft to United Airlines (with the option to buy 35 ...

A "son of Concorde" aircraft that may one day fly from New ... An incredible image shows Boom Supersonic's XB-1 jet breaking the sound barrier. The Colorado-based company says specialized ...