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

The Concorde passenger jet never really took off ... a World War II ace fighter pilot who became a military test pilot after ...

Boom Supersonic made history today (Jan. 28) when its XB-1 jet broke the sound barrier for the first time ... a Dassault Mirage F1 fighter jet, and a Northrop T-38 Talon, the same aircraft ...

Tuesday’s flight of the XB-1, a plane the size of a fighter jet, was the first time an independently developed plane broke the sound barrier. The XB-1 is also the first civilian supersonic jet ...

A Mirage F1, a French fighter and attack aircraft, was spotted trailing behind ... airspace where the Bell X-1 first broke the sound barrier in 1947,' said Scholl. 'I've been looking forward ...

On January 28, 2025, the Boom Supersonic XB-1 test aircraft achieved a record speed of Mach 1.13 during a flight over the ...

It was shadowed by two former fighter jets that Boom uses to monitor the XB-1 during the test flights. Scholl said the next step is to scale up the technology used on the XB-1 for Boom’s ...

The event took place over the Mohave Desert, the same location where Chuck Yeager broke the sound barrier for the first time in 1947 ... It was shadowed by two former fighter jets that Boom uses to ...

An aircraft developed by Boom Supersonic became the first independently funded U.S. jet to break the sound barrier this week ... a World War II ace fighter pilot who became a military test ...

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