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

Stretching back to WWII, the history of Russian jet development is intertwined with that of the United States. Here are the ...

This week, a sleek white jet became the first privately built aircraft to fly faster than sound, soaring high above the Mojave Desert as a crowd watched in excitement ...

Boom Supersonic XB-1 flew over Mach One on Jan. 28, on the latest test flight at Mojave Air & Space Port, at Rutan Field. Chase planes were a Northrop T-38 and Dassault Mirage F1, a French fighter.

Tuesday morning at Mojave Air & Space Port in California, almost 80 years after U.S. Air Force ace Chuck Yeager first ...

The Concorde passenger jet never really took ... in front of the rocket-powered Bell X-IE plane that he flew. Tuesday's ...

The XB-1 aircraft accelerated to Mach 1.05 within about 11 minutes of taking off, according to Boom Supersonic and live video ...

Boom Supersonic's XB-1 demonstrator jet broke the sound barrier at Mach 1.122, reaching an altitude of 35,290 feet at ...

Almost 22 years after Concorde made its final commercial flights, a prototype passenger jet is attempting to break the sound ...

Boom officials explained that the “world’s first independently developed supersonic jet” will break the sound barrier in the ...