In January 2025, Boom's experimental XB-1 became the first civil supersonic jet made in the United States to break the sound ...

I went on board the first Concorde prototype, and one of the last built, at a Paris museum. Boom's Overture means supersonic ...

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Today, with hindsight being 20/20, we know how the Boeing 747 revolutionized air travel. But that was anything but a sure thing back when it was still on the drawing board in the mid-1960s.

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Boom Supersonic’s XB-1 jet on a test flight on Jan. 28, 2025. Photo by HANDOUT/Boom Supersonic/AFP via Getty Images Comac has previously said it wants to bring the supersonic C949 to market by ...

NASA plans to conduct community overflights beginning this year, flying the X-59 over select American cities to collect public feedback on the “sonic thump.” ...

When the experimental XB-1 aircraft achieved supersonic speeds on a test flight, it did not create a disruptive sonic boom – thanks to a physics phenomenon called the Mach cutoff ...

Boom Supersonic founder and CEO Blake Scholl poses with a model of the XB-1, the world’s first independently developed supersonic jet aircraft, during the Farnborough International Airshow 2024 ...