Boom Supersonic independently designed and built the XB-1, the first civil supersonic jet in America. The XB-1's first ...

The test flight took place in the same Mojave Desert area in California where Charles "Chuck" Yeager first broke the sound ...

The world’s most glamorous aircraft was cruising at a thrilling 1315 mph, with the curvature of the Earth visible to those who cared enough ...

The scaled-down prototype, nicknamed the "Baby Boom", broke the sound barrier for the first time during a test flight over ...

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An American civil aircraft broke the sound barrier for the first time in California's Mojave Desert Late last week ... break the sound barrier since the Concorde was retired from service in ...

The XB-1's first supersonic flight last month was a success, breaking the sound barrier above the Mojave Desert while producing ... airliners ever made, the Concorde and the Tupolev Tu-144 ...

Boom expects the airlines to be profitable at about $5,000 USD a seat, which of course is a high price tag, and the company may find it hard to fill its plane seats with those who are willing to pay ...

More than 20 years since the final Concorde flight, is a small US start-up now on course to bring back supersonic air travel?

As Concorde could only fly supersonic over water ... when its XB-1 prototype hit Mach 1.12 while flying over the Mojave Desert. The firm said it placed microphones on the ground along the flight ...