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

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

The Associated Press reports it was the same Mojave Desert airspace where Charles “Chuck” Yeager was the first person to break the sound barrier in 1947. It’s also the first time an ...

Veuer’s Tony Spitz has the… An aircraft developed by Boom Supersonic became the first independently funded U.S. jet to break the sound barrier this week. The XB-1 aircraft accelerated to Mach ...

The aircraft, which climbed to an altitude of 35,290 feet before reaching a top speed of Mach 1.122 (750 miles per hour) also broke the sound barrier, and is considered the first independently ...

An aircraft developed by Boom Supersonic became the first independently funded U.S. jet to break the sound barrier this week. The XB-1 aircraft accelerated to Mach 1.05 at about 35,000 feet during ...

There is a lot of R&D talent in India if we get rid of the English barrier and the social stigma of not knowing English well." He also said that the Chinese are a major source of inspiration for him.

A Carnegie Mellon University grad is behind the successful flight earlier this week of the first independently developed jet to break the sound barrier. The flight of the XB-1 demonstrator aircraft by ...