The content is produced solely by The Conversation. Last week, American company Boom Supersonic flew faster than the speed of sound with its XB-1 supersonic demonstrator aircraft. It’s now the ...

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Chris James receives funding from the Australian Research Council, the Commonwealth Defence Science and Technology Group (DSTG), and the US Office of Naval Research. Late last week, American ...

A potential successor to Concorde made progress this week as US company Boom Supersonic’s XB-1 prototype aircraft broke the sound barrier on Tuesday – the first time a civilian plane has done ...

American aerospace startup Boom Supersonic achieved a historic milestone by breaking the sound barrier with its XB-1 demonstrator jet. The monumental test flight was broadcast live from California ...

Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. The Boom Supersonic’s XB-1 aircraft breaks the sound barrier, Mach 1, during a test flight Tuesday, Jan ...

Boom Supersonic founder and CEO Blake Scholl praised his team for accomplishing a feat that has been confined to the work of governments and militaries for the last two decades. He said he hopes ...

XB-1 reached an altitude of 35,290 feet before accelerating to Mach 1.122 – becoming the world’s first independently developed supersonic jet. (Watch in the video player above). Boom’s ...

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 ...

What just happened? You might not be familiar with Boom Supersonic, but the startup has just set a notable world first: its XB-1 demonstrator became the first privately developed aircraft to break ...