CEO Kelly Ortberg on Thursday said Elon Musk, the head of its space business rival SpaceX, is "helping us a lot" in ...

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More than 20 years since the final Concorde flight, is a small US start-up now on course to bring back supersonic air travel?

Boom invites people to access their review of the flight and see XB-1 in flight from the viewpoint of their T 38 chase ...

An F-35C of VX-9 assigned to the United Operational Test Team at Edwards AFB performed the first dual drop of externally ...

There are 38 aircraft in WA to help fight bushfires, and four of them are ex-military Black Hawk helicopters. It takes special skills to pilot the Black Hawk but they are effective in battling a ...

Piedmont Triad Airport Authority (PTI) congratulated the company on the supersonic flight of their XB-1 demonstrator aircraft on Wednesday. The company's manufacturing plant is near PTI.

Revolutionary XB-1 Aircraft Achieves First Supersonic Flight. Commercial aircraft will soon be ready to break the sound barrier again as Boom Supersonic's demonstrator aircraft, the XB-1, has made its ...

Boom’s XB-1 exceeded Mach 1 three times during its Jan. 28 flight. Credit: Boom Supersonic Breaking the sound barrier in a privately developed civil aircraft is a significant aviation milestone ...

Boom Supersonic’s XB-1 aircraft Tuesday reached an altitude of about 35,000 feet over the Mojave Desert, northwest of Los Angeles, before accelerating to Mach 1.1 speed. With this, it became the first ...

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 ...