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

Credit: Boom Supersonic/Cover Images Commercial aircraft will soon be ready to break the sound barrier again as Boom ...

The test flight took place in the same Mojave Desert area in California where Charles "Chuck" Yeager first broke the sound ...

The XB-1 aircraft accelerated to Mach 1.05 within about 11 minutes of taking off, according to Boom Supersonic and live video ...

The XB-1 aircraft accelerated to Mach 1.05 within about 11 minutes of taking off, according to Boom Supersonic and live video of the test flight ... in a statement. “A small band of talented ...

The Boom Supersonic's XB-1 aircraft breaks the sound barrier, Mach 1, during a test flight Tuesday ... CEO Blake Scholl said in a statement. “A small band of talented and dedicated engineers ...

At such a critical moment in US history ... speeds” over 11 test flights but never beyond Mach 1 (770 mph) – the speed of sound. The American-built civil supersonic jet is made from carbon ...

Colorado-based company Boom’s piloted test aircraft XB ... for passenger supersonic flight has arrived,” Boom founder and chief executive Blake Scholl said. “A small band of talented and ...

Almost 22 years after Concorde made its final commercial flights, a prototype passenger jet has broken the sound barrier during a supersonic test flight ... “A small band of talented and ...