New photograph captures breathtaking sight of history-making Boom Supersonic's XB-1 passenger plane as it hits supersonic ...

Five years before Concorde’s first flight, another majestic supersonic aircraft took to ... However, the downing of an American U-2 spy plane over the Soviet Union in 1960 caused a shift from ...

Boom Supersonic, a commercial aviation company behind the sonic boom-less XB-1, posted an image showing its experimental plane breaking the sound barrier. Captured during a successful test flight ...

and the Lockheed SR-71 Blackbird spy plane. Already, XB-1 has had a safe subsonic first flight: Boom Supersonic XB-1 prototype has a first flight. Read on to see what XB-1 is testing and some ...

In the mid-1950s, the U.S. military realized it needed a better platform to track Soviet military movements behind the Iron Curtain than the U-2 spy plane ... to prevent supersonic shock waves ...

Boom Supersonic independently designed and built the XB-1, the first civil supersonic jet in America. The XB-1's first supersonic flight last month was a success, breaking the sound barrier above ...

This week, Bahm, Larson and other NASA officials talked to students at Dallas’ Frontiers of Flight Museum about the plane. They explained how the X59 will fly supersonic, faster than the speed ...