Boom Supersonic’s XB-1 demonstrator has broken the sound barrier, marking a major milestone in the effort that hopes to lead ...

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

On this day in aviation history, January 19, 1946, the Bell X-1 high-speed research aircraft, made its first flight. While this first flight was in fact a gliding test, the X-1 would become the first ...

American aerospace startup Boom Supersonic achieved a historic milestone ... by Capttain Chuck Yeager piloting the Bell X-1 rocket-propelled aircraft, according to the US Air Force.

The XB-1 aircraft accelerated to Mach 1.05 within about 11 minutes of taking off, according to Boom Supersonic and live video of the test ... piloting an orange, bullet-shaped Bell X-1 rocket plane.

Boom Supersonic’s XB-1 aircraft climbed over 35,000ft on Tuesday before accelerating ... California, and flew through the Bell X-1 Supersonic Corridor and the Black Mountain Supersonic Corridor for 35 ...

The American-built civil supersonic jet is made from carbon fibre ... and flew through the Bell X-1 Supersonic Corridor and the Black Mountain Supersonic Corridor for 35 minutes.

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 ...

The XB-1 aircraft accelerated to Mach 1.05 within about 11 minutes of taking off, according to Boom Supersonic and live ... bullet-shaped Bell X-1 rocket plane.