A Carnegie Mellon University grad is behind the successful flight earlier this week of the first independently developed jet to break the sound barrier.

Breaking the sound barrier in a privately developed civil aircraft is a significant aviation milestone by any measure. But as the champagne corks popped and the engines on Boom Supersonic’s XB-1 ...

The state bills itself as the "First in Flight" and PTI will be the home of the Boom Supersonic jet manufacturing facility called 'The Overture Superfactory." The company announced it was moving to ...

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Two decades after Concorde's retirement, Boom Supersonic's test aircraft has broken the sound barrier for the first time ...

Kennedy Jr., is before the Senate Finance Committee at 10 a.m., and you can expect wall-to-wall coverage on TV networks. You ...

MOJAVE, California—High-speed airliner developer Boom took a major leap toward the development of its Mach 1.7 Overture ...

The XB-1 is a pint-sized testbed for the Overture: a next-generation supersonic airliner developed by ambitious US startup ...

An American company designing a new passenger aircraft with the ability to fly from Melbourne to Los Angeles in just 8.5 ...

A sleek white aircraft became the first independently developed jet to break the sound barrier Tuesday, tearing through the air tens of thousands of feet above the Mojave Desert and a crowd of ...

The single-seat, three-engine jet is the first independently developed plane to exceed Mach 1 in level flight.