This CEO Wants to Bring Back Supersonic Passenger Travel
On Jan. 27, the XB-1 aircraft, the brainchild of Blake Scholl's company Boom Supersonic, is expected to break the sound ...
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US supersonic aircraft nearly breaks sound barrier in test flight over Mojave Desert
Boom's XB-1 aircraft was subjected to a maximum dynamic pressure higher than it will experience at Mach 1.1. The next test ...
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Boom Supersonic one step from first Mach 1 flight after XB-1 completes 11th test
Boom Supersonic is determining whether a 12th test flight of its XB-1 demonstrator is needed before its first attempt at ...
Boom may be ready to take its demo model past the sound barrier
Chief Test pilot Tristan Bradenburg flew the XB-1 demonstrator plane to 29,481 feet and reached Mach 0.95 during a 44-minute ...
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'Cloud Rider': China tests supersonic plane flying Beijing to New York in under two hours
One of the main problems that the designers of this aircraft faced was the limited interior space in supersonic aircraft. Cui Kai and his team tried to solve this problem by creating suitable ...
Avenging the Concorde: Inside NASA’s Quest to Break the Sound Barrier and Hush the Sonic Boom
If NASA’s bet on its newest X-plane pays off, the long-nosed aircraft could revolutionize commercial aviation. That is, if ...