After Boom Supersonic's XB-1 demonstrator went Mach 1, RGN interviewed Mike Bannister, who served as the Chief Pilot of BA's ...

Boom Supersonic’s XB-1 has broken the sound barrier, paving the way for faster commercial flights if future tests succeed.

In January 2025, Boom testing platform XB-1 was the first civil supersonic jet made in America to break the sound barrier (Mach 1.122), doing it three times in a row above the Mojave Desert. Watch ...

Supersonic planes will burn significantly more fuel than current aircraft, resulting in higher emissions of carbon dioxide, ...

This 34-minute flight, the culmination of 11 previous subsonic ones, took off from Mojave Air and Space Port in California.

Boom Supersonic's XB-1 demonstrator marked a milestone by breaking the sound barrier. The company aims to launch supersonic airliners by 2029, dreaming of faster journeys such as a four-hour flight ...

American company Boom Supersonic just broke the sound barrier with a civilian plane. What exactly is supersonic travel, and ...

A civilian jet plane broke the sound barrier for the first time over continental USA during a historic test flight over the ...

Imagine a bomber so fast it could outrun any fighter jet, soaring at Mach 3 speeds across continents. The XB-70 Valkyrie was this dream made real, pushing engineering to new heights. But its path was ...

Kaeberlein is co-director of the Dog Aging Project, an ambitious research effort to track the aging process of tens of thousands of companion dogs across the US. He is one of a handful of scientists ...

A Carnegie Mellon University grad is behind the successful flight earlier this week of the first independently developed jet ...