The US aerospace company Boom Supersonic recently announced it has successfully tested its latest aircraft, the XB-1. The company is developing a lar ...

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When planes exceed Mach 1 (the speed of sound, or about 767 miles per hour—1,234 kilometers/hour for those using the metric ...

When Boom Supersonic's XB-1 broke the sound barrier last month, it achieved commercial supersonic flight for the first time ...

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

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Supersonic commercial air travel is becoming feasible as Boom Supersonic's XB-1 successfully broke the sound barrier.

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If you've been keeping tabs on aviation news as of late, you saw that Boom Supersonic just recently broke the sound barrier ...

Boom Supersonic passed a major milestone last month when its XB-1 prototype became the first civil aircraft to break the ...