Boom Supersonic made history today (Jan. 28) when its XB-1 jet broke the sound barrier ... Krauland during the company's livestream on X. "This jet really does have much of the enabling ...

Boom Supersonic's XB-1 demonstrator jet became the first U.S.-made civilian ... Chuck Yeager and the Bell X-1 rocket-propelled aircraft broke the sound barrier.

And the plane that would ultimately achieve that goal would be the experimental Bell X-1 jet. The National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA, later becoming NASA), the newly formed U.S. Air ...

posted on X (formerly Twitter) on January 25. “This is supersonic flight's 'Falcon 1' moment. XB-1's supersonic flight marks ...

The location was symbolic, as it was the same California airspace where Chuck Yeager broke the sound barrier for the first time in 1947 in the Bell X-1, a rocket engine–powered aircraft that was ...