American company Boom Supersonic just broke the sound barrier with a civilian plane. What exactly is supersonic travel, and ...

A Carnegie Mellon University grad is behind the successful flight earlier this week of the first independently developed jet ...

Boom Supersonic announced Greensboro's Piedmont Triad International Airport would be the home for its first full-scale ...

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

A civilian jet plane broke the sound barrier for the first time over continental USA during a historic test flight over the ...

Breaking the sound barrier occurs at 761 mph ... The flight will take place at the same Mojave Air & Space Port site in Mojave, Calif., where the 11 test flights for Overture’s XB-1 prototype ...

Today’s a day I’ve been looking forward to for more than a decade,” said Blake Scholl, Boom's visionary founder and chief ...

Tuesday morning at Mojave Air & Space Port in California, almost 80 years after U.S. Air Force ace Chuck Yeager first ...

Chuck Yeager, the first pilot to break the sound barrier in 1947, poses Sept. 4, 1985, at Edwards Air Force Base, Calif., in front of the rocket-powered Bell X-IE plane that he flew. Tuesday's ...