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

The aircraft, first rolled out in 2020, is a smaller prototype of Boom’s supersonic Overture, which has drawn 130 orders from customers including United Airlines and American Airlines.

See Boom Supersonic's "refined" design of the Overture aircraft in this animated explainer. Credit: Boom Supersonic ...

This achievement marks a significant step towards the development of Boom's Overture, a commercial supersonic aircraft designed to carry passengers at twice the speed of current subsonic airliners.

The first supersonic flight of a U.S.-designed civil aircraft attracted a large crowd. Boom Aerospace The Overture is a much larger, more complicated commercial aircraft, designed to fly at Mach 1 ...

Overture already has customers in waiting: American and Japan Airlines have all placed orders for the proposed supersonic aircraft. Brandenburg landed the XB-1 safely just before 12 p.m. ET. Boom ...

2025 /PRNewswire/ -- Boom Supersonic, the company building the world's fastest airliner, Overture, today announced the successful first supersonic flight of its XB-1 demonstrator aircraft at the ...

The XB-1 is a technology demonstrator, meaning Boom Supersonic is testing it in order to validate the design and subsystems of the jet to pave the way for the company's Overture passenger aircraft.