Breaking the sound barrier in a privately developed civil aircraft is a significant aviation milestone by any measure. But as the champagne corks popped and the engines on Boom Supersonic’s XB-1 ...
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Two decades after Concorde's retirement, Boom Supersonic's test aircraft has broken the sound barrier for the first time ...
Denver-based Boom Technology's XB-1 demonstrator plane hit Mach 1.122 — 750 mph. It's the first independently developed ...
Boom Supersonic, the American company building what promises to be the world’s fastest airliner, broke the sound barrier for ...
A prototype of a passenger jet designed to succeed the supersonic Concorde broke the sound barrier for the first time on ...
The Colorado-based company is aiming to build a Concorde-like supersonic aircraft—but has hurdles to clear before realizing ...