Supersonic Commercial Air Travel Is On Its Way
Boom Supersonic independently designed and built the XB-1, the first civil supersonic jet in America. The XB-1's first supersonic flight last month was a success, breaking the sound barrier above the ...
Supersonic Passenger Aircraft May Be Returning Here's What That Would Mean For The Climate
The US aerospace company Boom Supersonic recently announced it has successfully tested its latest aircraft, the XB-1. The company is developing a lar ...
Supersonic passenger aircraft may be returning – here’s what it means for the climate
Despite all these technological advances, a supersonic aircraft still cannot beat physics. Shock waves, and their associated ...
NASA fires up X-59, a supersonic jet with a top speed of 1,489 kmph
NASA says the X59 supersonic jet will produce a sonic thump instead of a sonic boom, which might help lower it's noise.
Supersonic flight is back. But can it make money?
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NASA Just Fired up Its Quiet Supersonic Jet—and It Looks Like Pure Speed
When planes exceed Mach 1 (the speed of sound, or about 767 miles per hour—1,234 kilometers/hour for those using the metric ...
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Boom's XB-1 goes supersonic without the boom
When Boom Supersonic's XB-1 broke the sound barrier last month, it achieved commercial supersonic flight for the first time ...
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Supersonic XB-1: Flying faster than sound
Overture will be the world’s first independently developed supersonic jet and the first civil supersonic jet made in America.
Trump shows off ‘Son of Concorde’ supersonic plane design as firm plans flights from London to NYC in 3.5hrs by 2029
TRUMP has shown off designs for the “Son of Concorde” supersonic jet, as the firm behind it readies to run ultra-fast flights ...
A startup says it can fly supersonic without the noisy boom. Here's how its airliner would compare to the famous Concorde.
A startup wants to revive the Concorde for the generations of flyers that missed out, without the noisy boom and the up to ...
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Boom boasts supersonic success with XB-1
More than 20 years since the final Concorde flight, is a small US start-up now on course to bring back supersonic air travel?
Supersonic Jet Test Flight Successful, To Halve New York-Rome Travel Time
The company claimed the aircraft would cut the travel time from New York to Rome to just four hours and 40 minutes, half the ...