Somewhere over the California desert, a small white aircraft punched through the sound barrier twice, and nobody on the ...

A spectacular image was captured during a historic test flight. It shows the supersonic XB-1 aircraft from Boom Supersonic racing past the Sun, revealing shock waves invisible to the naked eye. A ...

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If you've been keeping tabs on aviation news as of late, you saw that Boom Supersonic just recently broke the sound barrier with its XB-1 demonstrator aircraft. Oddly enough, no one on the ground ...

Announced to great fanfare in July this year, the XB-1 demonstrator aircraft from Supersonic Boom is officially here – and it’s already made history without ever leaving the ground. Boom’s XB-1 is the ...

Boom Supersonic's experimental aircraft made its first flight above California, as the company aims to develop a greener successor to the Concorde. Reading time 3 minutes Private aerospace company ...

The XB-1 demonstrator provides the foundation for Boom’s supersonic airliner Overture. The XB-1 supersonic aircraft demonstrator of Boom Supersonic flew for the first time on March 22, 2024, from the ...

Commercial supersonic flight sped closer to returning as the Boom Supersonic XB-1 prototype reached a transonic speed of Mach 0.95 during Test Flight 11 on January 10, 2025, in the skies over the ...

Designed by Boom Supersonic, the XB-1 represents a demonstration of state-of-art technology for future high-speed flight. Being scheduled to be flight tested in 2021, it represents the first civil ...

Boom Supersonic has completed its XB-1 flight test program at Mojave Air and Space Port in California, closing out a campaign ...

GREENSBORO, N.C. — Boom Supersonic’s XB-1 took its last test flight on Monday. The aircraft started its flight around 1:30 p.m. on Feb. 10. It was the 13th and final flight for the aircraft. In ...

Boom Supersonic’s XB-1 aircraft broke the sound barrier for the first time ever on Tuesday, ushering in a new era of supersonic flight. The jet exceeded Mach 1 after taking off from the Mojave Air and ...