Credit: Boom Supersonic/Cover Images Commercial aircraft will soon be ready to break the sound barrier again as Boom ...

The test flight took place in the same Mojave Desert area in California where Charles "Chuck" Yeager first broke the sound ...

More than two decades after the retirement of the Concorde, American aircraft company Boom Supersonic has achieved supersonic flight with its XB-1 prototype in a test flight above the Mojave Desert.

Denver-based Boom Technology's XB-1 demonstrator plane hit Mach 1.122 — 750 mph. It's the first independently developed ...

Tuesday’s XB-1 flight marks the first human-piloted civil supersonic flight since Concorde’s retirement more than 20 years ...

Boom, the American company building what promises to be the world's fastest airliner, broke the sound barrier for its first ...

The National Weather Service reports partially cloudy skies and no rain at launch time. The livestream will be hosted by ...

This was made possible by the Concorde: the only commercial supersonic ... thanks to the simulator's capability to make periodic pilot evaluations. The second generation simulator also gave ...

THE XB-1 'Son of Concorde' jet is expected to reach speeds faster than sound for roughly four minutes in an upcoming flight, its test pilot has revealed. And civilians on the ground will ...

Chief test pilot Tristan “Geppetto” Brandenburg ... There have been no commercial aircraft capable of supersonic flight since the Concorde - which is why airspace is so limited.

Photo: Tayfun Coskun/Anadolu/Getty Images Tanker 47 rears up as helicopter pilot Darren Davies settles it to hover over the Encino Reservoir, a half-mile-wide artificial lake perched on the ...