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

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

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

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

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 ...

Breaking the sound barrier occurs at 761 mph ... is made possible by flying a StarLink unit in our T-38 chase plane, “enabling us to watch XB-1 in-flight with a one-of-a-kind air-to-air view.” ...

A sleek white aircraft became the first independently developed jet to break the sound barrier Tuesday, tearing through the air tens of thousands of feet above the Mojave Desert and a crowd of ...

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

An aircraft developed by Boom Supersonic became the first independently funded U.S. jet to break the sound barrier this week ... As a supersonic plane speeds through the air, it pushes molecules ...