Imagine a bomber so fast it could outrun any fighter jet, soaring at Mach 3 speeds across continents. The XB-70 Valkyrie was this dream made real, pushing engineering to new heights. But its path was ...

The North American Aviation XB-70 Valkyrie was one of the first supersonic bombers to be built after the Second World War. Designed and constructed in the mid-1950s ...

Here’s What You Need to Know: A couple T-4 variants were proposed, but the Soviet government didn’t bite. In 1963, the Department of Defense canceled procurement of the XB-70 Valkyrie, a ...

and Research and Development/Flight Test Aircraft. Significant exhibits, to name only a few, include the North American XB-70 Valkyrie, the Wright 1909 Military Flyer, the Bleriot Monoplane, the ...

The experimental XB-1 aircraft, made by US company Boom Supersonic, flew faster than the speed of sound on 28 January. The achievement is the first time any civil aircraft has gone supersonic over ...

Boom Supersonic’s XB-1 demonstrator plane just went supersonic in the skies over California’s Mojave Desert, making it the first civil aircraft to break the sound barrier. The American startup ...

Boom Supersonic's XB-1 has successfully broken the sound barrier, becoming the first supersonic civil aircraft in U.S. history. Today (Jan. 28), the XB-1 took off from Mojave Air and Space Port in ...

Revolutionary XB-1 Aircraft Achieves First Supersonic Flight. Commercial aircraft will soon be ready to break the sound barrier again as Boom Supersonic's demonstrator aircraft, the XB-1, has made its ...

Accompanied throughout by two chase aircraft, a T-38 and a Mirage F1, the specific test points targeted by Boom for this XB-1 test flight included accelerating to Mach 1.1 while also evaluating ...

Piedmont Triad Airport Authority (PTI) congratulated the company on the supersonic flight of their XB-1 demonstrator aircraft on Wednesday. The company's manufacturing plant is near PTI.