A Plane Just Achieved Supersonic Flight Without the Sonic Boom

Boom Supersonic, a commercial aviation company behind the sonic boom-less XB-1, posted an image showing its experimental plane breaking the sound barrier. Captured during a successful test flight on ...
Yahoo

Boom Supersonic has second supersonic flight Monday, announces ‘Boomless Cruise’

MOJAVE, Calif. (WGHP) — Boom Supersonic broke the sound barrier again Monday, after a successful flight last month. On Feb. 10, Boom Supersonic performed another supersonic flight with its ...
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The Boom Overture Supersonic Aircraft: Everything We Know So Far

After more than two decades of silence in the skies following the retirement of Concorde, supersonic passenger flight is probably staging a comeback. Leading this new chapter is Boom Supersonic, an ...
New Atlas

XB-1 supersonic aircraft smashes sound barrier without explosive boom

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 ...
CNN

Supersonic jets are making a comeback. Here’s what that means for air passengers

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Live Science

NASA captures stunning new image of shock waves from next-gen supersonic plane as it flies across the sun

New photograph captures breathtaking sight of history-making Boom Supersonic's XB-1 passenger plane as it hits supersonic speeds while flying across the sun When you purchase through links on our site ...
New Atlas

First private-built supersonic plane smashes sound barrier

Boom Supersonic has gone, well, supersonic, its XB-1 prototype breaking the sound barrier today in the skies over the Mojave Air & Space Port in California. With Chief Test Pilot Tristan Brandenburg ...
The Business Journals

Breakthrough in supersonic flight reported by Denver-area plane maker

A Colorado company trying to revive supersonic passenger travel says its experimental jet may have solved a problem limiting such flights in the U.S. Elon Musk takes notice. Boom Supersonic, a ...
New Scientist

How the XB-1 aircraft went supersonic without a sonic boom

When the experimental XB-1 aircraft broke the sound barrier three times during its first supersonic flight on 28 January, it did not produce a sonic boom audible from the ground, according to US ...
The Conversation

Supersonic passenger aircraft may be returning – here’s what that would mean for the climate

Kshitij Sabnis does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would benefit from this article, and has disclosed no relevant affiliations beyond ...
The National Interest

NASA’s X-59 Quiet Supersonic Plane Just Made Its First Flight

The X-59 is designed to transform the sonic boom associated with supersonic flight into a “sonic thump”—making it feasible to fly over populated areas. NASA’s new X-59 experimental jet flew for the ...
The Conversation

Is supersonic air travel about to return, two decades after the last Concorde flight?

Kingston University provides funding as a member of The Conversation UK. An experimental supersonic aircraft called the X-59 took to the skies for the first time in October. The plane lifted off from ...