The scaled-down prototype, nicknamed the "Baby Boom", broke the sound barrier for the first time during a test flight over ...

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American company Boom Supersonic flew faster than the speed of sound with its XB-1 supersonic demonstrator aircraft. It’s now ...

More than 20 years since the final Concorde flight, is a small US start-up now on course to bring back supersonic air travel?

During the second supersonic flight of the XB-1 technology demonstrator today, the jet exceeded Mach 1 three times without a ...

According to the US company, the most recent and final test flight of XB-1 on February 10 also achieved supersonic speeds ...

XB-1 is the first civilian jet made in America to break the sound barrier. The purpose is gathering more data toward the ultimate goal of Overture civil supersonic flight by 2029. On Jan. 28 ...

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Boom’s XB-1 reached Mach 1.112, after 10 years of planning and a year of flight tests. Up next: its Overture supersonic ...

When the experimental XB-1 aircraft achieved supersonic speeds on a test flight, it did not create a disruptive sonic boom – ...

Boom isn’t the only company working on this lofty goal. American firm Spike Aerospace is also developing a supersonic business jet, with the tagline “delivering the world in half the time”.