Concorde's retirement in 2003 brought the curtain down on an era of supersonic passenger flights. Now, two decades later, Boom Supersonic is trying to revive that era. It's not just about the speed, ...

"This image makes the invisible visible — the first American made civil supersonic jet breaking the sound barrier." ...

Aviation company Boom Supersonic turned to NASA to visualize the flow of air around its supersonic XB-1 aircraft as it tries to prove Mach cutoff ...

During XB-1's second supersonic flight on February 10 ... the XB-1 team rapidly developed avionics software to guide the pilot to the specific points in space that XB-1 would have to fly through ...

Technologically oriented research for industrial developments of supersonic and hypersonic flight vehicles ... DLR’s hypersonic flight experiments as well as flight hardware and software for the ESA’s ...

Schlieren imaging, developed in 1864, makes it possible to visualize air pressure variations around objects moving at supersonic speeds. For this photo, specialized software guided the pilot to a ...

The method can reveal how light bends around differences in air pressure during supersonic flight. The XB-1 team made software using NASA data to guide the pilot on a path where the aircraft could ...