A Carnegie Mellon University grad is behind the successful flight earlier this week of the first independently developed jet to break the sound barrier.
Breaking the sound barrier in a privately developed civil aircraft is a significant aviation milestone by any measure. But as the champagne corks popped and the engines on Boom Supersonic’s XB-1 ...
The state bills itself as the "First in Flight" and PTI will be the home of the Boom Supersonic jet manufacturing facility called 'The Overture Superfactory." The company announced it was moving to ...
Boom Supersonic's XB-1 demonstrator aircraft broke the sound barrier on January 28, 2025, reaching a top speed of Mach ...
An aircraft developed by Boom Supersonic became the first independently funded jet to break the sound barrier this week. The ...
The XB-1 aircraft accelerated to Mach 1.05 within about 11 minutes of taking off, according to Boom Supersonic and live video ...
The XB-1 is a pint-sized testbed for the Overture: a next-generation supersonic airliner developed by ambitious US startup ...
We visited Boom Supersonic's hangar in Mojave, California, as the company prepared to break the sound barrier with its XB-1 ...
XB-1 hit supersonic, hypnotic speeds on Tuesday, making American aviation history. XB-1 is the first commercial aircraft to ...
The XB-1 demonstrator has broken the speed of sound, hitting Mach 1.1. It is the first civil supersonic aircraft in US history and the first to do so since Concorde was retired in 2003. That was an ...
While based in Colorado and testing in California, the jet startup’s future is intertwined with North Carolina.