As an airplane flies faster than the speed of sound, it "pushes" on the sound waves in front of it. But sound waves obey the speed limit—they can't travel faster than the speed of sound.

As an airplane approaches the speed of sound, shock waves build up ... the plane came up against a "sound barrier"—as though the velocity of sound represented a wall through which a plane ...

An XB-1 aircraft’s shock waves created during a supersonic ... privately developed civil supersonic aircraft to break the ...

A newly released image shows the sound barrier being broken on February ... NASA teams on the ground used Schlieren photography to capture the shock waves around Boom Supersonic’s demonstrator ...

"This image makes the invisible visible — the first American made civil supersonic jet breaking the sound barrier," Blake Scholl, Boom Supersonic founder and CEO, said in a statement. The photo ...

The remarkable flying career of Charles ‘Chuck’ Yeager - the first pilot to break the sound barrier and fly at supersonic ...

"This image makes the invisible visible — the first American made civil supersonic jet breaking the sound barrier," Blake Scholl, Boom Supersonic founder and CEO, said in a statement. The photo ...

NASA first visually captured supersonic shock waves in 2019 after a decade of research. The technology was developed in part ...

A "son of Concorde" aircraft that may one day fly from New York to London in 1.5 hours has reached supersonic speeds. An incredible image shows Boom Supersonic's XB-1 jet breaking the sound barrier.

By making these shock waves visible, engineers can better understand and optimize ... The supersonic XB-1 aircraft from Boom Supersonic, the first civil aircraft to break the sound barrier over the ...

The process is very similar to ultrasound imaging. However, the sound waves used are within normal hearing range, and they are used to identify objects rather than internal structures. This ...