The film documents the historic flight of the X1 aircraft, piloted by Captain Chuck Yeager, on October 14, 1947, when he ...

The same airspace saw Chuck Yeager become the first person to exceed the speed of sound in 1947. Boom’s test plane is named after Mr Yeager’s iconic aircraft, the Bell X-1. Former Concorde ...

Chuck Yeager when he became the first aviator to break the speed of sound in 1947, also flying over the Mojave Desert. Despite the company’s moniker, the test flight did not actually produce an ...

Two weeks ago, Boom Supersonic’s XB-1 demonstrator plane made history when it broke the sound barrier over the continental ...

Boom Supersonic, the American company building what promises to be the world’s fastest airliner, broke the sound barrier for its first time with a test flight in Mojave, California, on Tuesday.

The location was symbolic, as it was the same California airspace where Chuck Yeager broke ... speed is the speed of an object that is faster than the speed of sound, measured at about 768 miles ...