Boom Supersonic's XB-1 aircraft broke the sound barrier during a test flight in California. The company conducted its 12th test flight of the demonstrator aircraft, pushing the limits as it was ...

When the experimental XB-1 aircraft broke the sound barrier three times during its first supersonic flight on 28 January, it did not produce a sonic boom audible from the ground, according to US ...

Each one-tenth beyond Mach 1 represents a 10% increase beyond the speed of sound, so Mach 1.1 is 10% faster, Mach 1.2 is 20% faster and Mach 1.3 is 30% faster, and so on. The Overture supersonic ...

The experimental XB-1 aircraft, made by US company Boom Supersonic, flew faster than the speed of sound on 28 January. The achievement is the first time any civil aircraft has gone supersonic over ...

After 10 months of flight testing, Boom Supersonic has announced that it will ... which is half of the ultimate goal of Mach 2.2. If you want to tune into the action, Boom is providing a ...

Impact Link A startup wants to revive the era of the supersonic Concorde for the generations ... Mach 1.7 — slower than Concorde's Mach 2.04. The company decided to build its own engine, which ...

Boom Supersonic announced Monday that its airliner could fly above Mach 1 without producing a sonic boom audible from the ground. As Concorde could only fly supersonic over water, this discovery ...

A supersonic jet built by Boom Technology broke ... reached speeds of more than Mach 2, or twice the speed of sound. The model was withdrawn from service in 2003 after a crash that killed more ...

GREENSBORO, N.C. — Tuesday morning in California's Mojave Desert, the Boom Supersonic XB-1 — the world's first independently developed supersonic jet — broke the sound barrier during a test ...

A jet-manufacturing startup aiming to revive supersonic passenger travel broke the sound barrier for the first time Tuesday morning at the Mojave Air & Space Port in Southern California.