Boom: America’s answer to Concorde completes its first supersonic flight
Boom Supersonic, the American company building what promises to be the world’s fastest airliner, broke the sound barrier for ...
‘New Concorde’: Boom’s XB-1 jet breaks sound barrier on first supersonic flight
Boom’s XB-1 jet breaks sound barrier on first supersonic flight - Boom’s inaugural XB-1 supersonic test flight reached speeds ...
Avenging the Concorde: Inside NASA’s Quest to Break the Sound Barrier and Hush the Sonic Boom
If NASA’s bet on its newest X-plane pays off, the long-nosed aircraft could revolutionize commercial aviation. That is, if ...
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Flying High
In order to land, you had to get rid of that nose, so down it went. [To learn more about the plane's unique features, see Anatomy of Concorde.] NOVA: Looking back over the years you were a pilot ...
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Next-gen Concorde makes supersonic debut
The XB-1 is a pint-sized testbed for the Overture: a next-generation supersonic airliner developed by ambitious US startup ...
First independently developed jet breaks the sound barrier over the California desert
A sleek white aircraft became the first independently developed jet to break the sound barrier Tuesday, tearing through the ...