During the demonstration flight on January 28, 2025, the XB-1 broke the sound barrier three times, but not one of those ...

You might be wondering why this is news. Since Chuck Yeager’s first sonic boom in 1947, thousands of military aircraft have broken the sound barrier. Even some civilian aircraft have done it: the ...

Boom Supersonic announced Monday that its airliner could fly above Mach 1 without producing a sonic boom audible from the ground. As Concorde could only fly supersonic over water, this discovery ...