The first dreams of supersonic air travel were crushed by annoyed Oklahoma City residents in the 1960s. Decades later, it ...

Boom Supersonic, the new aircraft manufacturing firm attempting to restart commercial flight, just enjoyed a successful third test flight with its XB-1 demonstrator and shared development news.On ...

Boom Supersonic, the American company building what promises to be the world’s fastest airliner, broke the sound barrier for its first time with a test flight in Mojave, California, on Tuesday.

According to a Boom Supersonic blog on January 10, the 44-minute 11th test flight by Chief Test Pilot Tristan “Geppetto” Brandenburg, which reached Mach 0.95, was about taking XB-1 to a ...

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.

On its 12th test flight, the Boom XB-1 prototype broke the sound barrier three times and achieved a top speed of Mach 1.1. by Andrew Liszewski. Updated Jan 28, 2025, 8:34 PM UTC ...

XB-1 achieved Mach 0.95 during its most-recent test flight on Jan. 10, according to Boom Supersonic. Boom founder and CEO Blake Scholl poses by a model of the XB-1 on July 23, 2024 in Farnborough ...

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 ...

MOJAVE, Calif. (WGHP) — Boom Supersonic broke the sound barrier again Monday, after a successful flight last month. On Feb. 10, Boom Supersonic performed another supersonic flight with its ...

On Nov 16, Flight 8 reached 25,040 ft, over 2,000 ft higher than its previous 23,015 ft record set in test 7, and reached a new top speed of 499 kts (Mach 0.82).

Boom Supersonic will livestream its XB-1 prototype breaking through the sound barrier. The second series of supersonic flight tests are scheduled for 1:30 p.m. Monday as part of Boom “scaling up ...

Boom, the American company building what promises to be the world’s fastest airliner, broke the sound barrier for its first time with a test flight in Mojave, California. Advertisement The company’s ...