A Carnegie Mellon University grad is behind the successful flight earlier this week of the first independently developed jet to break the sound barrier.

Boom's recent test flight with the XB-1 aircraft achieved supersonic, with iPhone and Starlink capturing the iconic moments.

Breaking the sound barrier in a privately developed civil aircraft is a significant aviation milestone by any measure. But as the champagne corks popped and the engines on Boom Supersonic’s XB-1 ...

The state bills itself as the "First in Flight" and PTI will be the home of the Boom Supersonic jet manufacturing facility called 'The Overture Superfactory." The company announced it was moving to ...

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Two decades after Concorde's retirement, Boom Supersonic's test aircraft has broken the sound barrier for the first time ...

Boom's Overture commercial airliners would be built at the Greensboro Superfactory.

A sleek white aircraft became the first independently developed jet to break the sound barrier, tearing through the air tens ...

The XB-1 is a pint-sized testbed for the Overture: a next-generation supersonic airliner developed by ambitious US startup ...

We visited Boom Supersonic's hangar in Mojave, California, as the company prepared to break the sound barrier with its XB-1 ...

XB-1 hit supersonic, hypnotic speeds on Tuesday, making American aviation history. XB-1 is the first commercial aircraft to ...