An American civil aircraft broke the sound barrier for the first time in California’s Mojave Desert, a US aviation company announced on Wednesday.

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The test flight took place in the same Mojave Desert area in California where Charles "Chuck" Yeager first broke the sound ...

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Today a civil test airliner, Boom Technology’s XB-1, broke the sound barrier for the first time in two decades.