Jan 29, 2025 · Boom plans to focus next on the Overture airliner, which it says will carry as many as 80 passengers while moving at about twice the speed of today’s subsonic airliners. “XB-1’s supersonic flight demonstrates that the technology for passenger supersonic flight has arrived,” Boom founder and CEO Blake Scholl said in a statement.

Jan 28, 2025 · A supersonic jet built by Boom Technology broke the sound ... s XB-1 demonstrator aircraft surpassed Mach 1 while flying at an altitude of 34,000 feet across the Mojave Desert in California. The ...

Jan 29, 2025 · Boom Technology, a Denver-based company building a next generation supersonic airliner, broke the sound barrier over the California desert Tuesday. The aircraft, officially known as the XB-1 and called “Baby Boom,” will be the first civil supersonic jet made in the United States, and the first supersonic airliner since Concorde.

Jan 29, 2025 · 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 flight Tuesday in the same Mojave Desert airspace in California where Charles “Chuck” Yeager was the first person to break the sound barrier in 1947. ...

Jan 29, 2025 · Hawaii wildfire victims spared from testifying after last-minute deal over $4B settlement The XB-1 aircraft accelerated to Mach 1.05 within about 11 minutes of taking off, according to Boom ...

Jan 28, 2025 · Boom, 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.

Jan 28, 2025 · Boom Supersonic’s XB-1 demonstrator plane just went supersonic in the skies over California’s Mojave Desert, making it the first civil aircraft to break the sound barrier. The American startup ...

Today (Jan. 28), the XB-1 took off from Mojave Air and Space Port in California and reached Mach 1.1 — equivalent to 1.1 times the speed of sound, or 844 mph (1,358 km/h).

Jan 28, 2025 · A prototype of a passenger jet designed to succeed the supersonic Concorde broke the sound barrier for the first time on Tuesday above the Mojave Desert in California.. Why it matters: Exceeding Mach 1 speed — 770 miles per hour — is an important milestone in the quest by Boom Supersonic, a Denver-based startup, to resurrect high-speed air travel 22 years after the Concorde retired.

Jan 29, 2025 · The aircraft, flown by Boom's chief test pilot Tristan "Geppetto" Brandenburg, accelerated to Mach 1.122 (652 knots true airspeed or 750 miles per hour) - about 10% faster than the speed of sound ...