'New Concorde' prompts revival talk The aircraft developed by Boom Supersonic is the first independently funded jet to break the sound barrier.
An aircraft developed by Boom Supersonic became the first independently funded jet to break the sound barrier this week.
The XB-1 aircraft accelerated to Mach 1.05 at about 35,000 feet during a test flight on Tuesday (28 January) in the same Mojave Desert airspace in California where Charles “Chuck” Yeager was the first to break the sound barrier in 1947.
Boom, based in Denver, plans to use the technology to build its Overture commercial airliner, which the company says could carry as many as 80 passengers while travelling faster than the speed of sound.
Boom's founder and CEO Blake Scholl says the flight "demonstrates that the technology for passenger supersonic flight has arrived”.
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