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“It’s a super exciting year for us,” Blake Scholl, founder and CEO of Boom told CNN. Much of that excitement comes from the company’s XB-1 demonstrator aircraft breaking the sound barrier ...
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.
Aided by a quartet of Rolls-Royce Olympus 593 engines, the Concorde, the world's only commercially successful supersonic passenger plane, was capable of flying at speeds up to 1,354 mph (2,179 kph).
Supersonic flight means breaking the sound barrier, but there are some myths as to what pilots actually feel at Mach 1. Here's the truth from experts.
NASA collaborated with Boom Supersonic to photograph the shockwave of the XB-1 aircraft breaking the sound barrier, marking a significant moment in civil aviation history. Precise coordination was ...
NASA’s Quesst Mission aims to develop a new supersonic jet that produces quiet sonic booms, allowing for faster-than-sound flight over land, potentially paving the way for commercial bans to … ...
That's because, at the end of January, the plane conducted its first-ever flight at speeds above the sound barrier. The achievement was followed in February by a second flight, during which this ...
Boom Supersonic, a commercial aviation company behind the sonic boom-less XB-1, posted an image showing its experimental plane breaking the sound barrier. Captured during a successful test flight ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...