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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...