A civilian jet broke the sound barrier for the first time Tuesday while making a historic test flight over the Mojave Desert. The XB-1 aircraft, manufactured by Boom Supersonic, was piloted by ...

Boom CEO Blake Scholl confirmed that on January 28, the XB-1 successfully broke the sound barrier three times without ... A 2012 NASA study using an F-18 fighter jet demonstrated that precise ...

NASA captures a historic image of the XB-1 supersonic jet breaking the sound barrier without a loud boom, marking a breakthrough.

Boom Supersonic, the company aiming to create commercial planes that can travel faster than the speed of sound, have ...

allowing the public to see an aircraft break the sound barrier. The image captured by NASA shows the silhouette of Boom's demonstrator streaking across the sky, except the atmosphere is rendered ...

The company has highlighted it as the first civil supersonic jet to break the sound barrier, with the test flight occurring over the Mojave desert earlier this… ...

Two weeks ago, that single-seat, three-engine aircraft became the first independently developed plane to break Mach 1 in ... "We broke the sound barrier not once, not twice, but actually three ...

Related: Boom Supersonic XB-1 jet breaks sound barrier on historic test flight (video) The XB-1 lifted off for the first time in March 2024, on a flight that did not break the sound barrier (which ...

The XB-1 lifted off for the first time in March 2024, on a flight that did not break the sound barrier (which is about 767 mph, or 1,234 kph, at sea level). The demonstrator flew 10 more subsonic ...