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.

Tuesday morning at Mojave Air & Space Port in California, almost 80 years after U.S. Air Force ace Chuck Yeager first ...

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

Two decades after Concorde's retirement, Boom Supersonic's test aircraft has broken the sound barrier for the first time ...

Denver-based Boom Technology's XB-1 demonstrator plane hit Mach 1.122 — 750 mph. It's the first independently developed supersonic jet. The company is also working on a supersonic passenger airliner.

Boom, the American company building what promises to be the world's fastest airliner, broke the sound barrier for its first time with a test flight in Mojave, California.

"When I last flew Concorde in 2003, I knew this day would come," Mike Bannister, a former Concorde pilot, stated. "Boom is well on its way towards making sustainable supersonic flight a reality, ...

Like Concorde, the XB-1 and Overture both have a long nose and a high angle of attack for takeoff and landing, which interrupts the pilots’ view of the runway. While Concorde dealt with this by ...

A private company aiming to build the first supersonic airliner since the Concorde retired more than ... with Chief Test Pilot Tristan "Geppetto" Brandenburg at the controls, hit Mach 1.122 ...

Like Concorde, the XB-1 and Overture both have a long nose and a high angle of attack for takeoff and landing, which interrupts the pilots’ view of the runway. While Concorde dealt with this by having ...