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Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Specialized Schlieren photography, which shows air flow, was used by NASA to capture the sound waves as Boom Supersonic's XB-1 ...

Chuck Yeager broke the sound barrier in 1947 in the rocket-powered Bell X-1 Glamorous Glennis. Three years earlier, a British ...

An aircraft developed by Boom Supersonic became the first independently funded jet to break the sound barrier this week. The XB-1 aircraft accelerated to Mach 1.05 at about 35,000 feet during a test ...

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 founder and CEO Blake Scholl ...

Two weeks ago, Boom Supersonic’s XB-1 demonstrator plane made history when it broke the sound barrier over the continental United States, reaching 750 miles per hour (Mach 1.12) near Barstow, ...

Boom Supersonic's XB-1 aircraft broke the sound barrier during a test flight in California. The company conducted its 12th test flight of the demonstrator aircraft, pushing the limits as it was flown ...

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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 with its XB-1 demonstrator aircraft. Oddly enough, no one on the ground ...