Today’s a day I’ve been looking forward to for more than a decade,” said Blake Scholl, Boom's visionary founder and chief ...

After 10 months of flight testing, Boom Supersonic has announced that it will make the first supersonic flight of its XB-1 ...

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It was a step toward reviving supersonic commercial travel, which has been on hiatus since the Concorde jet was grounded more than two decades ago. Boom Supersonic has contracts with at least two ...

Flown by Boom Supersonic’s chief test pilot, Tristan “Geppetto” Brandenburg, the aircraft called XB-1 reached an altitude of 35,290 feet before accelerating to Mach 1.122, or 750 mph ...

About 35,000 feet (10,670 meters) over the Mojave Desert, northwest of Los Angeles, Boom Supersonic's XB-1 became the first ...

MOJAVE, Calif. and DENVER, Jan. 28, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- Boom Supersonic, the company building the world's fastest airliner, Overture, today announced the successful first supersonic flight of its ...

Boom Supersonic's XB-1 demonstrator jet became the first U.S.-made civilian supersonic jet to break the sound barrier. The independently funded XB-1 reached a speed of Mach 1.122, or about 750 mph ...

This week, Boom Supersonic’s XB-1 test plane took the company one step closer to commercial flights at the speed of sound, achieving supersonic flight for the first time. The company’s planned ...