In a bid to outdo the world speed record of the famous Lockheed SR-71 Blackbird spyplane, ... breaking the sound barrier and, finally, pushing past Mach 3.3.

While that plane may not be real, it may not be all that far off from reality as Lockheed Martin is reportedly working on a successor to the famed SR-71 Blackbird, a supersonic surveillance plane ...

But a new crop of companies, including Dawn and Boom Supersonic, are trying to break the sound barrier again. Unlike Boom’s Overture, ... the SR-71 Blackbird,” said Powell.

The SR-71 was so fast that when fired upon with a surface-to-air missile, ... The ability to break free from the binds of gravity, transcend the sound barrier, ...

Boom Supersonic to break sound barrier as it prepares its Greensboro, ... Bevacqua piloted the high-altitude U-2 jet, and later, the SR-71. His early missions, he said, ...

Mach 10, ten times the speed of sound, ... H umankind was once determined to break the sound barrier, ... By comparison, the Lockheed SR-71, ...

Civil Jet Makes History by Breaking Sound Barrier. Published Jan 28, 2025 at 6:44 PM EST Updated Jan 28, 2025 at 10:11 PM EST. By . Jon Jackson is a News Editor at Newsweek based in New York.

Boom Supersonic's XB-1 demonstrator jet became the first U.S.-made civilian supersonic jet to break the sound barrier. The independently funded XB-1 reached a speed of Mach 1.122, or about 750 mph ...