American aerospace startup Boom made history on Tuesday by breaking the sound barrier during the test ... s supersonic flight demonstrates that the technology for passenger supersonic flight ...

"Chuck" Yeager became the first human to break the sound barrier, using the Bell X-1 "Glamorous Glennis" rocket plane. The XB-1, flown by Boom's chief test pilot, Tristan "Geppetto" Brandenburg ...

Boom Technology, the Colorado company working on building the next generation of supersonic jets, has chosen to develop and ...

Boom Supersonic selected a site at the Colorado Air and Space Port to conduct tests for its Symphony propulsion system.

As an airplane flies faster than the speed of sound, it "pushes" on the sound waves in front of it. But sound waves obey the speed limit—they can't travel faster than the speed of sound.

Boom Technology’s supersonic demonstrator will ... Whereas the Concorde got past the sound barrier by using afterburners, Fehrm says Boom intends to skip the add-on thrust and instead use ...

The XB-1 aircraft, a jet independently developed by Boom Supersonic, has broken the sound barrier during a test flight over the Mojave Desert in California. The sound barrier was broken for the ...

Stratolaunch's Talon-A2 vehicle went hypersonic for the first time in December, then repeated the feat in March.

At Mach 1, shock waves coming off a T-38 (seen using Schlieren photography) will coalesce to form a mighty boom. Along Seawall ... make when it crosses the sound barrier during flight tests ...

Previously, Dr. Hallion was curator of science and technology at the Smithsonian Institution. NOVA spoke with him on the eve of the 50th anniversary of the breaking of the sound barrier.