Great Big Story. Breaking the sound barrier, a pilot's thrilling tale. Posted: June 29, 2024 | Last updated: February 6, 2025. Join pilot Tim Hibbetts as he shares the exhilarating experience of ...

Civil Jet Makes History by Breaking Sound Barrier. Published Jan 28, 2025 at 6:44 PM EST Updated Jan 28, 2025 at 10:11 PM EST. By . Jon Jackson is a News Editor at Newsweek based in New York.

What if a car could actually hit Mach 1 breaking the sound barrier on land? This video dives into the extreme physics, design challenges, and real-world attempts to bring supersonic speed to wheels.

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NASA has released a new image providing photographic evidence of Boom Supersonic's XB-1 prototype aircraft breaking the sound barrier. Captured on the second supersonic flight, it used a special ...

Boom Supersonic broke the sound barrier in late January with its XB-1 test jet, paving the way forward in the startup's efforts to build its own supersonic airliner. Boom and NASA released a ...

Normally when something breaks the sound barrier, it creates a massive sonic boom heard miles away, depending on the plane’s altitude. However, NASA’s X-59 plane will try to break the barrier ...

Boom Supersonic's XB-1 demonstrator craft could become the first commercial jet to break the sound barrier since Concorde after acing its 11th test and reaching 0.95 Mach at low altitudes.

Boom Supersonic's XB-1 demonstrator jet became the first U.S.-made civilian supersonic jet to break the sound barrier. The independently funded XB-1 reached a speed of Mach 1.122, or about 750 mph ...

Boom Supersonic and NASA just dropped an incredible photo of the XB-1 breaking the sound barrier over the Mojave Desert. Using Schlieren photography, they captured air distortions that are usually ...

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 ...