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.
An American civil aircraft broke the sound barrier for the first time in California’s Mojave Desert, a US aviation company announced on Wednesday.
The test flight took place in the same Mojave Desert area in California where Charles "Chuck" Yeager first broke the sound ...
Denver-based Boom Technology's XB-1 demonstrator plane hit Mach 1.122 — 750 mph. It's the first independently developed ...