An aircraft developed by Boom Supersonic became the first independently funded jet to break the sound barrier this week. The ...

A Carnegie Mellon University grad is behind the successful flight earlier this week of the first independently developed jet to break the sound barrier.

An American civil aircraft broke the sound barrier for the first time in California’s Mojave Desert, a US aviation company announced on Wednesday.

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Will Boom bring boom time back to supersonic travel? 'New Concorde' prompts revival talk - The aircraft developed by Boom ...

Now that things are getting very real for Boom Supersonic – the ultra-fast jet maker that chose to locate its manufacturing ...

A sleek white aircraft has become the first independently developed jet to break the sound barrier. A sleek white aircraft ...

Recent scientific advancements include NASA's collaboration with SpaceX to return astronauts from the ISS and Boom Supersonic ...

The XB-1 breakthrough is seen as a major advancement in the development of Boom’s commercial passenger aircraft, the Overture ...

Boom plans to focus next on the Overture airliner, which it says will carry as many as 80 passengers while moving at about ...