Jets were detected flying low over Beirut, the capital of Lebanon, causing a loud "sonic boom" to be heard over the city. The loud explosion occurred on Thursday, September 19 during a statement ...

In 2021, an F-16 jet corrected course while flying over central Illinois, creating a large sonic boom as it broke the sound barrier. The sound shook neighborhoods in Illinois and Oregon, where ...

Two F-16s launched from Joint Base Andrews had been authorized to fly at supersonic speeds, which caused a loud sonic boom around 3:10 a.m. local time over D.C. and parts of Maryland and Virginia.

The Colorado firm has FAA certification for flight testing of its XB-1 experimental prototype aircraft and has begun taxi tests at the Mojave Desert.

Boom’s XB-1 ‘Baby Boom’ demonstrator achieves supersonic flight with no audible sonic boom on the ground. [Courtesy: Boom Supersonic] Last month in the skies above Mojave Air & Space Port in ...

NASA is not exactly looking to create passenger planes, however, which is where Boom Supersonic's Overture airliner comes into play. The aircraft can allegedly reach Mach 1.7, and the company said ...

But Boom Technology has been working on a jet that has no audible sonic boom. The firm managed to make its XB-1 test jet fly faster than the speed of sound for the first time in January this year.

Boom Supersonic’s XB-1 jet on a test flight on Jan. 28, 2025. Photo by HANDOUT/Boom Supersonic/AFP via Getty Images Comac has previously said it wants to bring the supersonic C949 to market by ...

Boom Supersonic founder and CEO Blake Scholl poses with a model of the XB-1, the world’s first independently developed supersonic jet aircraft, during the Farnborough International Airshow 2024 ...

Boom Supersonic passed a major milestone last month when its XB-1 prototype became the first civil aircraft to break the sound barrier over the continental US. Less than a month later, Chief Test ...