Chief Test Pilot Tristan “Geppetto” Brandenburg safely piloted the XB-1 to a top speed of Mach 1.122 (652 KTAS), reaching a maximum altitude of 35,290 feet over the Bell X-1 Supersonic Corridor and ...

A sleek white aircraft became the first independently developed jet to break the sound barrier Tuesday, tearing through the air tens of thousands of feet above the Mojave Desert and a crowd of ...

Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. The Boom Supersonic’s XB-1 aircraft breaks the sound barrier, Mach 1, during a test flight Tuesday, Jan ...

Complaints of broken windows and cracked plaster from households under the flight path, and even farmers reporting panic amongst livestock, meant Concorde was banned from going supersonic over land.

NASA is looking at developing a craft with a softer boom, and Boeing is also working on a prototype for supersonic commercial travel. Any new such service will likely face the same hurdles as the ...

Times of San Diego will send you the top local and state news at 8 a.m., 365 days a year. A sleek white aircraft became the first independently developed jet to break the sound barrier Tuesday ...

Of this happy bunch, just one can now brag about actually going over Mach 1 in the aircraft it's designing: Boom Supersonic. The company, founded just ten years ago, has made it its mission to ...

Boom is one of several companies with an eye on supersonic passenger travel. Any new such service will likely face the same hurdles as the Concorde, which flew over the Atlantic and was barred ...

About 35,000 feet (10,670 meters) over the Mojave Desert, northwest of Los Angeles, Boom Supersonic's XB-1 became the first privately funded airplane to break the sound barrier during a test ...

American aircraft company Boom Supersonic proved their name by successfully flying their civilian jet, the XB-1, faster than the speed of sound over the Mojave Desert Tuesday. The test flight out ...