Boom Supersonic made history today (Jan. 28) when its XB-1 jet broke the sound barrier for the first time on a test flight ...

The single-seat jet, a 201-foot-long test model by Boom Supersonic, hit 844 mph just 12 minutes into its latest test flight out of California’s Mojave Air and Space Port.

Boom, the startup developing a new generation of supersonic aircraft, has achieved a major milestone after its test plane broke the sound barrier for the first time. The XB-1 “Baby Boom” piloted by ...

And the plane that would ultimately achieve that goal would be the experimental Bell X-1 jet. The National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA, later becoming NASA), the newly formed U.S. Air ...

A Learjet 35A veered off the runway after landing at Scottsdale Airport and crashed into a Gulfstream 2100 business jet, according to the FAA.

Boom Supersonic's XB-1 demonstrator jet became the first U.S.-made civilian ... Chuck Yeager and the Bell X-1 rocket-propelled aircraft broke the sound barrier.

Here’s What You Need to Know: America’s first supersonic jet did not excel as a fighter. On October 14, 1947, an orange-painted Bell X-1 piloted by Chuck Yeager ...