The unofficial successor to Concorde is one step closer to reality after Boom Supersonic marked the ... again even when it finally breaks the sound barrier, as its in-service flights will take ...

The XB-1 aircraft, a jet independently developed by Boom Supersonic, has broken the sound barrier during a test ... have been forced to evacuate a Delta plane after an engine caught fire while ...

NOVA: The obstacles to breaking the sound barrier were the aircraft design itself and the building of a propulsion capable of pushing a plane that ... in the design of supersonic wind tunnel ...

Boom Supersonic and NASA published a special photo taken during the flight of the XB-1 jet aircraft, which demonstrates the moment of breaking the sound barrier. To capture the iconic moment, the ...

free-fall though the sound barrier. In a computer animation it looks straightforward enough, but the reality is no one knows if this is possible. To be able to go supersonic Felix will have to ...

Aided by a quartet of Rolls-Royce Olympus 593 engines, the Concorde, the world's only commercially successful supersonic ... to come close to the breaking the sound barrier. Understandable ...

Boom Technology, the Colorado company working on building the next generation of supersonic jets, has chosen to develop and ...

The aircraft will never experience such intense conditions again even when it finally breaks the sound barrier ... Supersonic ...