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 ...

Boom Supersonic, a company working to develop passenger aircraft capable of traveling faster than the speed of sound, announced that its planes will be able to fly at supersonic speeds without the ...

Faster planes require more fuel, and alternatives may not be the climate solution the industry hopes for. Boom Supersonic broke the sound barrier in a test flight of its XB-1 jet last week ...

MOJAVE, Calif. (WGHP) — Boom Supersonic broke the sound barrier again Monday, after a successful flight last month. On Feb. 10, Boom Supersonic performed another supersonic flight with its ...

XB-1’s supersonic flight took place in the same historic airspace where Chuck Yeager broke the sound barrier for the first time in 1947, among many other historic firsts. The first supersonic ...

A compact version of the full-fledged passenger plane, the Boom XB-1 is classified as a supersonic technology demonstrator aircraft. Its primary purpose is to evaluate all the new technologies and ...

Supersonic aircraft maker Boom Supersonic announced its XB-1 test plane managed to perform a Mach cutoff maneuver that makes boomless flight possible ...

The countdown has begun for the XB-1’s “historic” first supersonic test flight that should break the sound barrier, according to Boom Supersonic. The test flight for the Boom Supersonic XB-1 ...

Boom Supersonic's XB-1 demonstrator craft could become the first commercial jet to break the sound barrier since Concorde after acing its 11th test and reaching 0.95 Mach at low altitudes.

An international team of astronomers have now made an unexpected discovery: supersonic winds are raging on the planet. "Part of the atmosphere of this planet is moving towards us at a high ...

Boom Supersonic's XB-1 demonstrator aircraft soared ... Boom said it planned to fly XB-1 starting in 2017. Instead, this compact jet did not take off until March 2024, with Tuesday’s flight ...

Supersonic winds on this exoplanet, designated WASP-127b, travel at a mind-bending 5.5 miles per second (9 kilometers per second). The speed of sound on Earth is roughly 0.21 miles per second (0. ...