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I went on board the first Concorde prototype, and one of the last built, at a Paris museum. Boom's Overture means supersonic ...
As long as the airplane stays supersonic, it continuously drags a three-dimensional cone of compressed air, the sonic-boom carpet, behind it, much like a boat’s wake.
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Boom's XB-1 goes supersonic without the boomWhen Boom Supersonic's XB-1 broke the sound barrier last month, it achieved commercial supersonic flight for the first time since the Concorde. It also did it without an audible sonic boom, which ...
Boom Supersonic, the American company building what promises to be the world’s fastest airliner, broke the sound barrier for its first time with a test flight in Mojave, California, on Tuesday.
Boom Supersonic's XB-1 pathfinder vehicle went out in style on Monday (Feb. 10), breaking the sound barrier three times on its 13th and final test flight.
Boom Supersonic’s mission crew was particularly focused on demonstrating that the XB-1 is capable of passing the Mach cutoff, a physics event that only occurs at sufficiently high altitudes.
NASA plans to test its X-59 aircraft this year, paving the way for the return of supersonic commercial flights for the first time since 2003.
The experimental XB-1 aircraft, made by US company Boom Supersonic, flew faster than the speed of sound on 28 January. The achievement is the first time any civil aircraft has gone supersonic over ...
Boom Supersonic, the American company building what promises to be the world’s fastest airliner, broke the sound barrier for its first time with a test flight in Mojave, California, on Tuesday.
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