A Carnegie Mellon University grad is behind the successful flight earlier this week of the first independently developed jet to break the sound barrier.
Credit: Boom Supersonic/Cover Images Commercial aircraft will soon be ready to break the sound barrier again as Boom ...
The XB-1, piloted by chief test pilot Tristan "Geppetto" Brandenburg, reached an altitude of 34,000 feet before accelerating ...
An American Airlines jet with 60 passengers and four crew members aboard collided Wednesday with an Army helicopter carrying three soldiers as the plane was landing at Ronald Reagan National Airport ...
The test flight took place in the same Mojave Desert area in California where Charles "Chuck" Yeager first broke the sound ...
Commercial supersonic jets could grace the skies once again after Boom Supersonic's XB-1 jet broke the sound barrier in test ...
Aviation startup Boom Supersonic announced its XB-1 demonstrator broke the sound barrier for the first time over in California ...
Boom, the American company building what promises to be the world's fastest airliner, broke the sound barrier for its first ...
Less than a year from the maiden flight, the first civil supersonic jet made by a private company aims to demonstrate ...
Denver-based Boom Technology's XB-1 demonstrator plane hit Mach 1.122 — 750 mph. It's the first independently developed ...
Boom is convinced it can overcome the barriers that grounded the Concorde and make supersonic travel affordable and greener.
The single-seat jet, a 201-foot-long test model by Boom Supersonic, hit 844 mph just 12 minutes into its latest test flight ...