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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American company Boom Supersonic just broke the sound barrier with a civilian plane. What exactly is supersonic travel, and ...

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

Concorde, the first supersonic passenger-carrying commercial airplane, was built jointly by aircraft manufacturers in the United Kingdom and France. It was first flown in 1969 and was put into ...

Today’s a day I’ve been looking forward to for more than a decade,” said Blake Scholl, Boom's visionary founder and chief ...

More than two decades after Europe’s failed attempt at a supersonic airliner, the USA is on track to make it work. View on ...

Credit: Boom Supersonic/Cover Images Commercial aircraft will soon be ready to break the sound barrier again as Boom Supersonic’s demonstrator aircraft, the XB-1, has made its first supersonic flight.

A sleek white aircraft has become the first independently developed jet to break the sound barrier. A sleek white aircraft ...