"The Shaped Sonic Boom Demonstrator was not intended to be ... And the greater the weight, the greater the shock wave that causes the boom. What you want is a way to have your cake and eat it ...

a unit of pressure that measures the strength of the shock wave from a sonic boom. An instrument set up on the roof of the Margaritaville Beach Resort on South Padre Island, a popular tourist ...

NASA and Boom Supersonic just released an incredible photo capturing a shockwave emanating from the ... plans to make a supersonic airplane with a sonic boom that won't disturb people on the ...

NASA and Boom Supersonic released an incredible photo capturing the shock waves of the supersonic XB-1 aircraft while it traveled in front of the sun during a Feb. 10 test flight.

So the waves pile up against each other as they are created. These "piled up" waves are called shock waves. The greatest shock waves are at the tip and tail of the plane. This NASA photograph ...

The sharp release of pressure, after the buildup by the shock wave, is heard as the sonic boom," NASA explains. "The change in air pressure associated with a sonic boom is only a few pounds per ...

They also confirmed no sonic boom reached the ground during XB-1 ... It documents the changing air density around XB-1 and the resulting shock wave—making the invisible visible." ...

The noise heard and felt throughout southern Delaware and as far away as Cape May, New Jersey, on Monday was indeed a sonic boom. After saying Monday that Naval Air Station Patuxent River aircraft ...