NASA Dryden Flight Research Center's F-15B Research Testbed aircraft has been busy this spring, flying an experimental test fixture in partnership with Aerion Corporation of Reno, Nevada.

Extremely interesting footage shows the bow shock wave around an F-104 Starfighter flying supersonic. As already explained in a previous article, Piercarlo “Capone” Ciacchi is the Director of ...

Boom Supersonic says its XB-1 aircraft achieved supersonic flight without an audible sonic boom on the ground below. CEO Blake Scholl hopes supersonic passenger flight will eventually be allowed ...

Supersonic flow over the open weapons bay creates a shear layer, and feedback between this and acoustic waves inside the cavity creates unsteady pressures in the bay.

Uploaded with ImageShack.us Uploaded with ImageShack.us[/img] Airfoils work because the higher speed of air going over the top surface results in lower air pressure than the slower air beneath. If ...

Modeling supersonic-flight shock waves on the XB-1 demonstrator aircraft Things are really cooking at Boom Supersonic. After months of exacting build activity, their team is nearing completion of ...

If Boom’s Overture commercial passenger aircraft is approved for supersonic flight over land, a flight across the U.S. — beginning potentially as early as 2029 — could be at least 90 minutes ...