A newly released image shows the sound barrier being broken on February 10 as Boom Supersonic’s XB-1, America’s first civil ...
On February 10, in the skies above the Mojave Desert, the Boom Supersonic XB-1 test jet roared past Mach 1, tearing through ...
But while the successful test flight of XB-1 shows that supersonic flight without sonic booms is technically feasible, the ...
You might be wondering why this is news. Since Chuck Yeager’s first sonic boom in 1947, thousands of military aircraft have broken the sound barrier. Even some civilian aircraft have done it: the ...
An aircraft developed by Boom Supersonic became the first independently funded jet to break the sound barrier this week ... which has been on hiatus since the Concorde jet was grounded more ...