Being a test pilot isn’t always the healthiest business in the world. [In the 1950s, test pilots were being killed at the ...

Not every experimental jet fighter made by the U.S. military would go on to reach production, for any number of reasons.

Boom Supersonic's XB-1 aircraft broke the sound barrier during a test flight in California ... place in the same historic airspace where Chuck Yeager broke the sound barrier for the first time ...

Boom Supersonic’s XB-1 creates a sonic boom inaudible from the ground below when flying at the exact right speed and altitude ...

Boom Supersonic, the American company building what promises to be the world’s fastest airliner, broke the sound barrier for ...

Boom Supersonic’s XB-1 demonstrator has broken the sound barrier, marking a major milestone in the effort that hopes to lead to a larger 55-seat supersonic airliner design known as Overture. Overall, ...

Boom’s chief test pilot Tristan “Geppetto” Brandenburg ... Boom’s jet will be flying in the same airspace where Chuck Yeager became the first person to exceed the speed of sound in 1947.

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The XB-1 aircraft accelerated to Mach 1.05 at about 35,000 feet during a test flight in the ... California where Charles "Chuck" Yeager, a World War II ace fighter pilot who became a military ...

About 35,000 feet (10,670 meters) over the Mojave Desert, northwest of Los Angeles, Boom Supersonic's XB-1 became the first privately funded airplane to break the sound barrier during a test flight on ...