The Chinese military has flown two new stealthy jets. Some military observers consider them a tangible threat to the U.S.

This is the story of how America’s Australian allies joined the fight against Communist tyranny in Vietnam. This coming April will mark the fiftieth anniversary of the end of the Vietnam War. With all ...

Designers and crew like to give their aircraft nicknames—very often, the nickname that sticks is from an attribute of the ...

Boom Supersonic's XB-1 demonstrator broke the sound barrier, showcasing the potential for next-generation supersonic commercial travel with Chief Test Pilot Tristan "Geppetto" Brandenburg achieving a ...

An aircraft developed by Boom Supersonic became the first independently funded jet ... damaging a tire that crashed into the underside of the wing, rupturing a fuel tank.

Almost 22 years after Concorde made its final commercial flights, a prototype passenger jet has broken the sound barrier during a supersonic test flight. Boom Supersonic founder and CEO Blake ...

More than 20 years after the Concorde made its final flight, a new jet has smashed the sound barrier as it charts a course towards commercial supersonic flights by the end of the decade. Dubbed the XB ...

Denver-based Boom Technology's XB-1 demonstrator plane hit Mach 1.122 — 750 mph. It's the first independently developed ...

Boom Supersonic's XB-1 is the first civilian aircraft to achieve the feat since the British-French supersonic airliner, which was retired in 2003. The XB-1 broke the sound barrier for the first ...

MOJAVE, Calif. - XB-1 became the first American-made private supersonic jet to fly faster than the speed of sound as Boom Supersonic works toward building a fleet of supersonic jets for commercial ...