This 34-minute flight, the culmination of 11 previous subsonic ones, took off from Mojave Air and Space Port in California.

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

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Boom's Supersonic XB-1 demonstrator aircraft is the first civil aircraft to break the sound barrier since the Concorde. | ITV ...

It’s now almost 55 years since the 002 prototype for Concorde first flew at Mach 1 ... CNN last year that he expects supersonic planes to replace conventional airliners in our lifetime.