It took off with a bang. Boom Supersonic’s XB-1 jet broke the sound barrier for the first time on Monday as the American company seeks to deliver the world’s faster airliner capable of ...

Almost 22 years after Concorde made its final commercial flights, a prototype passenger jet has broken the sound barrier during a supersonic test flight. Boom Supersonic’s XB-1 aircraft climbed ...

A new plane company plans to go supersonic today, potentially opening a new chapter in the story of ultra-highspeed commercial aviation. Boom Supersonic plans to break the sound barrier during a ...

A supersonic jet built by US company Boom has broken the sound barrier for the first time since the Concorde during a test flight.

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.

A private company aiming to build the first supersonic airliner since the Concorde retired more than two decades ago achieved its first sound-barrier-busting flight over California's Mojave desert ...

In 2003, British Airways and Air France retired Concorde—history’s only successful supersonic airliner. More than two decades later, a civil aircraft has broken the sound barrier once again ...

Colorado company Boom Supersonic plans to break the sound barrier with its test plane XB-1 during a test flight this morning, with the flight due to be streamed live online ...