A "son of Concorde" aircraft that may one day fly from New York to London in 1.5 hours has reached supersonic speeds. An incredible image shows Boom Supersonic's XB-1 jet breaking the sound barrier.

Boom Supersonic’s XB-1 took its last test flight on Monday. The aircraft started its flight around 1:30 p.m. on Feb. 10. It was the 13th and final flight for the aircraft. In January, the aircraft ...

In 1947, Chuck Yeager, Captain in the US Air Force, became the first man to reach the speed of sound in his Bell X-1 rocket plane. Nearly 60 years later, GEAR4 is proud to equip a new generation of ...

The future of high speed travel did not arrive with a deafening crack over the ocean, but with a controlled, almost modest ...

Commercial supersonic flight sped closer to returning as the Boom Supersonic XB-1 prototype reached a transonic speed of Mach 0.95 during Test Flight 11 on January 10, 2025, in the skies over the ...

Washington-area residents were startled Sunday afternoon when a D.C. Air National Guard F-16 fighter jet went supersonic in pursuit of an unresponsive Cessna business plane, letting loose a sonic boom ...

MOJAVE DESERT, Calif. (WKRC) - A groundbreaking image has revealed what a sonic boom looks like, showcasing the moment America's first civil supersonic jet broke the sound barrier last month. The ...

Boom Supersonic and NASA just dropped an incredible photo of the XB-1 breaking the sound barrier over the Mojave Desert. Using Schlieren photography, they captured air distortions that are usually ...

At approximately 5:20 p.m., an F-16 fighter jet assigned to the Ohio National Guard’s 180th Fighter Wing broke the sound barrier, causing a sonic boom over the Northwest Ohio area. The sonic boom was ...

The countdown has begun for the XB-1’s “historic” first supersonic test flight that should break the sound barrier, according to Boom Supersonic. The test flight for the Boom Supersonic XB-1, a ...