Despite traveling at a top speed of Mach 1.12, no associated boom was picked up. “XB-1 broke the sound barrier three times ...

“We broke the sound barrier not once ... gradients refract the sonic boom upwards, preventing it from reaching the ground. A 2012 NASA study using an F-18 fighter jet demonstrated that precise ...

A newly released image shows the sound barrier ... jet completed its second flight at speeds exceeding Mach 1. NASA teams on the ground used Schlieren photography to capture the shock waves around ...

“It is surprisingly kind of anticlimactic,” Tristan ‘Geppetto’ Brandenburg says about the time he broke the sound barrier. “You don’t hear a sonic boom from the cockpit because you are ...

“We’ve got the only operational, non-military supersonic jet in the world,” he said. “That’s the XB-1 prototype. We’ve ...

They also confirmed no sonic boom reached the ground during ... visible—the first American-made civil supersonic jet breaking the sound barrier. Thanks to Geppetto's exceptional flying and ...

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

US House Republicans face divide as they look to move ahead on Trump tax cuts Top Republicans in the U.S. House of Representatives plan to move forward this week on President Donald Trump's tax ...

An incredible image shows Boom Supersonic's XB-1 jet breaking the sound barrier. The Colorado-based ... They also confirmed no sonic boom reached the ground during XB-1 demonstrator’s supersonic ...

Boom Supersonic’s XB-1 demonstrator aircraft broke the sound barrier for its ... test flight, the jet went above Mach 1 several times "without generating a sonic boom that reached the ground ...