Not every experimental jet fighter made by the U.S. military would go on to reach production, for any number of reasons.

Two weeks ago, Boom Supersonic’s XB-1 demonstrator plane made history when it broke the sound barrier over the continental ...

Boom Supersonic, the American company building what promises to be the world’s fastest airliner, broke the sound barrier for ...

Throughout the 1970s and '80s, playwright Sam Shepard was American theater’s tough guy. He fooled around with punk poet Patti ...

Boom Supersonic’s XB-1 creates a sonic boom inaudible from the ground below when flying at the exact right speed and altitude ...

Chuck Yeager Flies the MiG-15 A segment from a U.S. Air Force film follows a single flight by then-Major Charles Chuck Yeager. Before Yeager and Air Force test pilots Albert Boyd and H.E. Tom ...

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

The sound barrier was broken for the first time in 1947, when Air Force pilot Capt. Chuck Yeager flew a rocket-propelled experimental aircraft across the Mojave Desert -- taking off from the ...

Boom’s XB-1 reached Mach 1.112, or 860.9 mph, after 10 years of planning and a year of flight tests. Up next: its Overture supersonic business jet.

When the XB-1 took off from the Mojave Air and Space Port on its latest flight it was in the same historic airspace where legendary pilot Chuck Yeager broke the sound barrier for the first time in ...