Ever since the Concorde stopped flying, aviation buffs have dreamed of a civilian supersonic plane. Now there's been a successful test flight of one.

We visited Boom Supersonic's hangar in Mojave, California, as the company prepared to break the sound barrier with its XB-1 ...

A test flight over the Desert Southwest could mark the return of supersonic travel that has been largely sidelined since the ...

The single-seat jet, a 201-foot-long test model by Boom Supersonic, hit 844 mph just 12 minutes into its latest test flight ...

Boom, the American company building what promises to be the world's fastest airliner, broke the sound barrier for its first ...

Today a civil test airliner, Boom Technology’s XB-1, broke the sound barrier for the first time in two decades.

Less than a year from the maiden flight, the first civil supersonic jet made by a private company aims to demonstrate ...

Air Force pilot Capt. Chuck Yeager broke the sound barrier for the first time in 1947, flying a rocket-propelled experimental ...

Boom's Supersonic XB-1 jet became the “world’s first independently developed supersonic jet” to break the sound barrier ...

XB-1 is Boom's technology demonstrator aircraft and the world's first independently developed supersonic jet. The aircraft ...

A fast-growing aerospace startup lives up to its name and surpasses a lofty milestone in its quest to develop supersonic ...

XB-1 hit supersonic, hypnotic speeds on Tuesday, making American aviation history. XB-1 is the first commercial aircraft to ...