On February 10, in the skies above the Mojave Desert, the Boom Supersonic XB-1 test jet roared past Mach 1, tearing through ...

When traveling near the speed of sound, the plane came up against a "sound barrier"—as though the velocity of sound represented a wall through which a plane could not move. With technological ...

It’s been two decades since a passenger jet broke the sound barrier — until now. The Boom XB-1 just went supersonic, marking ...

Boom Supersonic selected a site at the Colorado Air and Space Port to conduct tests for its Symphony propulsion system.

The supersonic engine testing facility Boom Supersonic is opening at the Colorado Air and Space Port in Watkins, east of ...

Boom plans to initially operate Overture at Mach 0.94 over land. That speed is about 20% faster than today’s subsonic jets, but below the breaking of the sound barrier at Mach 1. Each one-tenth ...

Boom Technology, the Colorado company working on building the next generation of supersonic jets, has chosen to develop and test its engines of the future just 30 miles north of its Centennial ...

Boom Technology’s supersonic demonstrator will ... Whereas the Concorde got past the sound barrier by using afterburners, Fehrm says Boom intends to skip the add-on thrust and instead use ...

Boom Supersonic projects beginning Symphony engine testing later this year, starting with a prototype core that serves as the ...

At Mach 1, shock waves coming off a T-38 (seen using Schlieren photography) will coalesce to form a mighty boom. Along Seawall ... make when it crosses the sound barrier during flight tests ...

Previously, Dr. Hallion was curator of science and technology at the Smithsonian Institution. NOVA spoke with him on the eve of the 50th anniversary of the breaking of the sound barrier.

“Just like the chip, the airplane was invented in America, and China wants to surpass America as a leader in technology ... boom.” Boom Supersonic’s XB-1 demonstrator aircraft broke the ...