Brandenburg would break the sound barrier twice more during his roughly 20 minutes in the air — his journey monitored by more than two dozen engineers in a control room on the ground.

Boom Supersonic's XB-1 has successfully broken the sound barrier, becoming the first supersonic ... "The entire control room team is going to spend several days poring over the data that we ...

If you buy through a BGR link, we may earn an affiliate commission, helping support our expert product labs. NASA is trying to break the sound barrier in a new and exciting way. Normally when ...

Sound barriers — essentially a solid wall designed to block noise from a road — are more commonly found in industrialized northern states and are still somewhat new in South Carolina ...

Boom Supersonic's XB-1 demonstrator jet became the first U.S.-made civilian supersonic jet to break the sound barrier. The independently funded XB-1 reached a speed of Mach 1.122, or about 750 mph ...

Editor's note: Boom Supersonic successfully broke the sound barrier with the XB-1 today in a major milestone. Read our coverage here. Boom Supersonic plans to break the sound barrier during a test ...

PERRYSBURG, Ohio — Construction on a new concrete sound barrier along I-75 in Perrysburg is underway, and for one local family, the project represents more than just an infrastructure upgrade.