Boom will now shift its attentions toward developing Overture, its supersonic passenger jet.

The single-seat jet, a 201-foot-long test model by Boom Supersonic, hit 844 mph just 12 minutes into its latest test flight out of California’s Mojave Air and Space Port.

The test flight of the XB-1 aircraft is a step in manufacturer Boom Supersonic's goals of building a supersonic passenger jet ...

Boom's Supersonic XB-1 jet became the “world’s first independently developed supersonic jet” to break the sound barrier Tuesday.

About 35,000 feet (10,670 meters) over the Mojave Desert, northwest of Los Angeles, Boom Supersonic's XB-1 became the first ...

Boom Supersonic's XB-1 made history on Tuesday by becoming the first civil aircraft to break the sound barrier. Before ...

A sleek white aircraft has become the first independently developed jet to break the sound barrier A sleek white aircraft became ... fly faster than the speed of sound — typically about 760 mph (1,223 ...

A Carnegie Mellon University grad is behind the successful flight earlier this week of the first independently developed jet ...

XB-1’s supersonic flight took place in the same historic airspace where Chuck Yeager broke the sound barrier for the first time in 1947, according to Boom Supersonic.

Boom officials explained that the “world’s first independently developed supersonic jet” will break the sound barrier in the ...

This marks the first time a privately funded aircraft has broken the sound barrier, setting an important ... Mach 2.2 (about 2,700 km/h or 1,678 mph), the Overture promises a significant reduction ...

American aerospace startup Boom made history on Tuesday by breaking the sound barrier during the test flight ... or about 750 mph, according to a press statement from Boom. The measurement ...