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

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

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A sleek white aircraft has become the first independently developed jet to break the sound barrier. The XB-1 aircraft ...

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The X-1 was first flown on glide tests, in Florida, after being dropped from a B-29 at 29,000 feet. It wasn’t until information collected during the glide tests was processed, and adjustments were ...

Boom Supersonic's XB-1 demonstrator craft could become the first commercial jet to break the sound barrier since Concorde after acing its 11th test and reaching 0.95 Mach at low altitudes.

while the B-2 and B-52 are limited to subsonic speeds (comparable to the commercial airliner you might take from Newark to O’Hare), the B-1 is capable of breaking the sound barrier with a top ...

Photo courtesy of the US Air Force Asked to comment on the US delivery of arms to Taiwan, Koo said that aircraft from the order had been ... The delivery of the long-awaited multiple-role fighters has ...

The two F-35 fighter jets that Norway deployed to Poland in early January were scrambled on alert the day before, on 15 January, due to Russian aviation activity. Source: European Pravda, citing NATO ...