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

Boom Supersonic's XB-1 demonstrator plane just went supersonic in the skies over California's Mojave Desert, making it the ...

Boom Supersonic’s XB-1 aircraft has become the first independently developed jet to break the sound barrier, bringing ...

A prototype of a passenger jet designed to succeed the supersonic Concorde broke the sound barrier for the first time on ...

Boom Supersonic passed a major milestone Tuesday on its path to reintroduce supersonic commercial flights. After years of ...

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

American company Boom achieved a milestone Tuesday as its XB-1 aircraft exceeded the speed of sound for the first time during ...

A prototype of a passenger jet meant to succeed Concorde will attempt to break the sound barrier for the first time on ...

but so far no one has succeeded. Boom Supersonic’s ambitions remain high. CEO Blake Scholl told CNN last year that he expects supersonic planes to replace conventional airliners in our lifetime. “I ...

Boom Supersonic ... the XB-1 back to the Mojave Air & Space Port. The supersonic flight comes eight years after Boom first revealed the XB-1. It's a small, roughly one-third scale version of ...

XB-1 became the first American-made private supersonic ... to purchase Boom aircraft for their fleets. The company is also developing a custom Overture for the U.S. Air Force.