Experimental jet achieves supersonic flight, minus the boom
Boom Supersonic passed a major milestone last month when its XB-1 prototype became the first civil aircraft to break the sound barrier over the continental US. Less than a month later, Chief Test Pilot Tristan “Geppetto” Brandenburg has once again surpassed Mach 1 in the experimental plane while flying as high as 36,
Boom Supersonic sans the sonic boom: The XB-1's quiet Mach 1 flight
If you've been keeping tabs on aviation news as of late, you saw that Boom Supersonic just recently broke the sound barrier with its XB-1 demonstrator aircraft. Oddly enough, no one on the ground heard a thing during its "boomless" cruise.
Boom hopes its breakthrough will allow supersonic flights over land, making US coast-to-coast flights 90 minutes faster.
The Concorde was also a very loud plane at takeoff, since it needed a lot of thrust to leave the ground. NASA and Lockheed Martin’s Quesst project aims to show sonic boom can be dissipated to ...
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