On February 10, in the skies above the Mojave Desert, the Boom Supersonic XB-1 test jet roared past Mach 1, tearing through ...

It’s been two decades since a passenger jet broke the sound barrier — until now. The Boom XB-1 just went supersonic, marking ...

Israeli warplanes broke the sound barrier Wednesday above Beirut and parts of Lebanon. "Israeli military aircraft broke the sound barrier over Beirut and several Lebanese regions,” according to ...

An F/A-18C Hornet assigned to Strike Fighter Squadron 113 breaks the sound barrier during an air power demonstration over the Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS Carl Vinson. An F/A-18F Super Hornet ...

The XB-1 aircraft, a jet independently developed by Boom Supersonic, has broken the sound barrier during a test ... institution to lose a valuable tax break, saying it has not done enough to ...

James Walker / NASM On August 24, 1961, a jet streaked over the desert near ... speed record and becoming the first woman to break the sound barrier. But the French test pilot Jacqueline Auriol ...

The first F-16 Block 70 fighter jet intended for the Bulgarian Air Force has arrived in the country, landing at the Graf Ignatievo airbase at 2:30 p.m. The aircraft, a combat training model with a ...

America currently remains ahead of China when it comes to airplanes that can fly faster than the speed of sound, according to Boom Supersonic CEO Blake Scholl. “I think aviation has always been ...

Boom Supersonic and NASA published a special photo taken during the flight of the XB-1 jet aircraft, which demonstrates the moment of breaking the sound barrier. To capture the iconic moment, the ...

At a speed of about 767 miles per hour, depending on temperature and humidity, a moving object will break the sound barrier. It was not until World War II, when aircraft started to reach the ...