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Flown by Boom’s Chief Test Pilot, Tristan “Geppetto” Brandenburg ... XB-1’s supersonic flight occurred in the same historic airspace where Chuck Yeager first broke the sound barrier ...

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 ...

Boom’s XB-1 jet breaks sound barrier on first supersonic flight - Boom’s inaugural XB-1 supersonic test flight reached speeds of more than 850 miles per hour ...

American company Boom achieved a milestone Tuesday as its XB-1 aircraft exceeded the speed of sound for the first time during a supersonic test flight. The last flight of a supersonic airliner, ...