For military pilots flying high-performance combat aircraft, the ejection seat represents a final emergency option when an ...

DENVER (KDVR) — A Denver-based supersonic jet company became part of history when it became the company behind the first civil manufactured jet in the United States to hit supersonic speeds. Boom ...

American aerospace startup Boom made history on Tuesday by breaking the sound barrier during the test flight of its Boom Supersonic XB-1 demonstrator jet. The XB-1's flight, livestreamed from the ...

“It is surprisingly kind of anticlimactic,” Tristan ‘Geppetto’ Brandenburg says about the time he broke the sound barrier. “You don’t hear a sonic boom from the cockpit because you are leaving the ...

The X-59 has flown on nine more occasions, most recently on April 14 when it accomplished some of its biggest feats to date ...

Commercial supersonic flight sped closer to returning as the Boom Supersonic XB-1 prototype reached a transonic speed of Mach 0.95 during Test Flight 11 on January 10, 2025, in the skies over the ...

Researchers are validating the aircraft's performance before propelling it to supersonic speeds.

AI-generated summary reviewed by our newsroom. Read our AI Policy. Boom Supersonic, the Colorado startup that aims to assemble passenger jets in North Carolina, celebrated President Donald Trump’s ...