From the moment Chuck Yeager broke the sound barrier for the first time in 1947, zipping from New York to Paris in less than three hours became every traveler’s dream. It’s a dream that shattered as ...

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The American company working to build the world’s fastest airliner hit a major milestone this week with its first supersonic flight. Boom Supersonic’s XB-1 aircraft broke the sound barrier for its ...

An aircraft developed by Boom Supersonic became the first independently funded jet to break the sound barrier this week. The XB-1 aircraft accelerated to Mach 1.05 at about 35,000 feet during a test ...

Boom Supersonic's XB-1 aircraft broke the sound barrier during a test flight in California. The company conducted its 12th test flight of the demonstrator aircraft, pushing the limits as it was flown ...

Boom Supersonic broke the sound barrier in late January with its XB-1 test jet, paving the way forward in the startup's efforts to build its own supersonic airliner. Boom and NASA released a unique ...

Concorde and Tupolev are acknowledged as some of the first planes to break the sound barrier, but it wasn't them. Which one actually did it first?

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. A sleek white aircraft became the first ...