The cast has been announced for the world premiere of the musical Supersonic Man, written and directed by Chris Burgess, at Southwark Playhouse Borough, Wednesday 9 April to Saturday 3 May.

Though it's not an exact replica of the ring-barreled Supersonic, the Laifen Swift bears the closest resemblance to Dyson's design, barring all the random iron and fuschia knock-offs that are ...

XB-1 reached an altitude of 35,290 feet before accelerating to Mach 1.122 – becoming the world’s first independently developed supersonic jet. (Watch in the video player above). Boom’s ...

Boom Supersonic has gone ... where Chuck Yeager became the first man to break the sound barrier in level flight, in the X-1 aircraft in 1947. Reaching an altitude of 35,290 ft (19,756 m), the ...

Languages: English. During the XB-1's historic flight on Tuesday—its 12th test flight overall—the aircraft stayed supersonic for around four minutes before breaking the sound barrier two more ...

GREENSBORO, N.C. — Tuesday morning in California's Mojave Desert, the Boom Supersonic XB-1 — the world's first independently developed supersonic jet — broke the sound barrier during a test ...

Less than a year from the maiden flight, the first civil supersonic jet made by a private company aims to demonstrate technologies to pave the way for the return of supersonic airliners.

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 ...

MOJAVE, Calif. – A test flight over the Desert Southwest could mark the return of supersonic travel that has been largely sidelined since the early 2000s. Boom Supersonic, a Colorado-based aerospace ...

Boom Supersonic, on Tuesday, reached a new milestone in its work toward building the world’s fastest commercial airliner. The manufacturer's demonstrator aircraft for the highly anticipated Overture ...

It took off with a bang. Boom Supersonic’s XB-1 jet broke the sound barrier for the first time on Monday as the American company seeks to deliver the world’s faster airliner capable of ...

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