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Two weeks ago, Boom Supersonic’s XB-1 demonstrator plane made history when it broke the sound barrier over the continental United States, reaching 750 miles per hour (Mach 1.12) near Barstow, ...

“XB-1 broke the sound barrier three times during its first supersonic flight – without an audible boom,” Blake Scholl, Founder and CEO of Boom Supersonic, said in a statement.

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Boom Supersonic's XB-1 jet went out in style on Monday (Feb. 10). The XB-1 broke the sound ...

Bannister, a former pilot of the Concorde supersonic plane, made the call as the experimental XB-1 broke the sound barrier. It was a key test for the company that plans to build high-speed planes ...

Boom Supersonic has gone, well, supersonic, its XB-1 prototype breaking the sound barrier today in the skies over the Mojave Air & Space Port in California. With Chief Test Pilot Tristan ...

XB-1 becomes first independently developed jet to break the sound barrier Plane's maker Boom Supersonic wants to build a plane that will carry as many as 80 passengers at twice the speed of today ...

Ten months after its long-delayed first subsonic flight took place last March, Boom Supersonic’s prototype test plane, the XB-1, broke the sound barrier today three times during its 12th flight.