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.

The XB-1 test flight was a unique event that will live on in the aviation history books. Boasting a beautiful, slender-fuselage designed and built in America, the XB-1 is the very first civilian ...

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 ...

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

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

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

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 ...

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

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