We visited Boom Supersonic's hangar in Mojave, California, as the company makes preparations to break the sound barrier with its XB-1 demonstrator aircraft.

Moving at roughly 20,505 miles per hour along the distant world's equator, it’s the fastest known jet stream that wraps ...

SINGAPORE—China’s Sichuan Lingkong Tianxing Technology has unveiled its Yunxing family of supersonic aircraft alongside the ...

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.

Boom's XB-1 aircraft was subjected to a maximum dynamic pressure higher than it will experience at Mach 1.1. The next test ...

SON of Concorde' XB-1 jet is "on track" to break the sound barrier in early 2025, makers of the supersonic plane have announced. In its first major update of the year, bosses at Colorado-based ...

BoomSupersonic The supersonic plane, built by Colorado-based Boom Technology, is on track to break the sound barrier in early 2025. In its first major update of the year, bosses confirmed the jet ...

Take, for instance, the development cycle for any and all of the Stealth aircraft or the SR-82 Darkstar ... States Air Force was planning to make a supersonic vehicle capable of going Mach ...

If you buy through a BGR link, we may earn an affiliate commission, helping support our expert product labs. Supersonic air travel is something NASA has been working to perfect for some time.

In the mid-1950s, the U.S. military realized it needed a better platform to track Soviet military movements behind the Iron Curtain than the U-2 spy plane ... to prevent supersonic shock waves ...

and it is incrementally working toward supersonic speed. The latest test was a 44-minute flight that reached an altitude of 29,481 ft (8,986 m). The company's Chief Test Pilot Tristan “Geppetto” ...