Despite all these technological advances, a supersonic aircraft still cannot beat physics. Shock waves, and their associated drag, will still exist. So, a single supersonic aircraft will still produce ...
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There is every indication that supersonic planes are on their way back, more than two decades after Concorde last took to the ...
The scaled-down prototype, nicknamed the "Baby Boom", broke the sound barrier for the first time during a test flight over ...
On its 12th test flight, the Boom XB-1 prototype broke the sound barrier three times and achieved a top speed of Mach 1.1.
It’s the first step in Boom’s ambitious goal to have supersonic airliners carry passengers by 2029. The Mach number is defined as a plane’s speed divided by the speed that sound waves move t ...
Boom Supersonic independently designed and built the XB-1, the first civil supersonic jet in America. The XB-1's first ...
Boom Supersonic passed a major milestone last month when its XB-1 prototype became the first civil aircraft to break the ...
The demonstrator is about one-third the size of Overture, which will seat 64 to 80 passengers. Related: Boom Supersonic XB-1 jet breaks sound barrier on historic test flight (video) The XB-1 ...
Boom Supersonic says its XB-1 aircraft achieved supersonic flight without an audible sonic boom on the ground below. CEO ...