The American company Boom Supersonic has successfully conducted the first supersonic flight of its XB-1 aircraft in California, breaking the sound barrier by reaching a speed exceeding 1,382 ...
On its 12th test flight, the Boom XB-1 prototype broke the sound barrier three times and achieved a top speed of Mach 1.1.
During its flight, which went supersonic around 11 minutes and 30 seconds after take-off, XB-1 was followed by two chase ...
A Carnegie Mellon University grad is behind the successful flight earlier this week of the first independently developed jet to break the sound barrier.
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 Europe’s failed attempt at a supersonic airliner, the USA is on track to make it work. View on ...