"This image makes the invisible visible — the first American made civil supersonic jet breaking the sound barrier." ...

NASA has released a new image providing photographic evidence of Boom Supersonic's XB-1 prototype aircraft breaking the sound barrier. Captured on the second supersonic flight, it used a special ...

Supersonic flight means breaking the sound barrier, but there are some myths as to what pilots actually feel at Mach 1.

Boom Supersonic broke the sound barrier in late January with its XB-1 test jet, paving the way forward in the startup's efforts to build its own supersonic airliner. Boom and NASA released a ...

A spectacular image was captured during a historic test flight. It shows the supersonic XB-1 aircraft from Boom Supersonic racing past the Sun, revealing shock waves invisible to the naked eye. A ...

James is a published author with four pop-history and science books to his name. He specializes in history, strange science, and anything out of the ordinary. Boom Supersonic, the company aiming ...

US aeronautics agency NASA managed to capture the Boom Supersonic XB-1 research aircraft as it broke the sound barrier during its final flight on 10 February. The flight – the XB-1’s second in ...

Boom Supersonic and NASA published a special photo taken during the flight of the XB-1 jet aircraft, which demonstrates the moment of breaking the sound barrier. To capture the iconic moment, the ...

NASA has snapped a stunning image of a supersonic plane breaking the sound barrier – as its creators boast that there was “no audible sonic boom”. The Boom Supersonic XB-1 – dubbed a ...