An aircraft developed by Boom Supersonic has become the first independently funded jet to break the sound barrier.

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

A sleek white aircraft has become the first independently developed jet to break the sound barrier. The XB-1 aircraft ...

Boom Supersonic's XB-1 made history on Tuesday by becoming the first civil aircraft to break the sound barrier. Before ...

Independently developed jet makes new record, adding to its rigorous series of human-piloted test flights that will prepare ...

Boom Supersonic announced Greensboro's Piedmont Triad International Airport would be the home for its first full-scale ...

Boom Supersonic’s XB-1 aircraft has become the first independently developed jet to break the sound barrier, bringing ...

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

Boom is convinced it can overcome the barriers that grounded the Concorde and make supersonic travel affordable and greener.

NOVA: The obstacles to breaking the sound barrier were the aircraft design ... and take data on flow conditions at those speeds. In effect these airplanes were to be research tools using the ...