The return of supersonic travel has been remarkably slow for something faster than the speed of sound, but a major milestone was achieved on January 28 when Boom Supersonic completed its first ...

Ever since the Concorde stopped flying, aviation buffs have dreamed of a civilian supersonic plane. Now there's been a successful test flight of one.

Tuesday’s XB-1 flight marks the first human-piloted civil supersonic flight since Concorde’s retirement more than 20 years ...

A test flight over the Desert Southwest could mark the return of supersonic travel that has been largely sidelined since the ...

On its twelfth test flight the Boom XB-1 prototype broke the sound barrier three times and achieved a top speed of Mach 1.1.

The single-seat jet, a 201-foot-long test model by Boom Supersonic, hit 844 mph just 12 minutes into its latest test flight ...

Boom Supersonic flew its XB-1 test jet at about the speed of sound, a major step as the company works toward the daunting job ...

Denver-based Boom Technology’s XB-1 demonstrator plane hit Mach 1.122 — 750 mph. It’s the first independently developed ...

Today a civil test airliner, Boom Technology’s XB-1, broke the sound barrier for the first time in two decades.

Less than a year from the maiden flight, the first civil supersonic jet made by a private company aims to demonstrate ...

On January 28, 2025, the Boom Supersonic XB-1 test aircraft achieved a record speed of Mach 1.13 during a flight over the ...