Boom Supersonic, a company working to develop passenger aircraft capable ... path confirmed that sonic booms did not reach the ground as XB-1 flew at a top speed of Mach 1.12." ...

When the experimental XB-1 aircraft ... Mach 1, or about 1224 kilometres per hour – these sound waves combine to form a shock wave that spreads away from the flight path. This sonic boom can ...

flew Mach 1.122 in Boomless Cruise ... no one on the ground could hear the sonic boom from the aircraft The XB-1 went supersonic a total of three times during the test flight. An array of ...

Well, the aircraft still creates a sonic boom, but what’s important is the way in which it creates that boom. The XB-1 uses a method known as “Mach cutoff,” which makes use of the variation ...

reaching 750 miles per hour (Mach 1.12) near Barstow, California. You might be wondering why this is news. Since Chuck Yeager’s first sonic boom in 1947, thousands of military aircraft have broken the ...

Monday’s test flight continued efforts to “assess aircraft performance and data collection above Mach 1.” This included measuring acoustic sonic boom data using strategically positioned ...

XB-1 hit a speed of Mach 0.82, 487 knots TAS, with a peak altitude of 25,040 feet. “Flight eight assessed aircraft handling qualities with the stability augmentation system off,” Boom ...

Boom Supersonic ... its XB-1 prototype hit Mach 1.12 while flying over the Mojave Desert. The firm said it placed microphones on the ground along the flight path to confirm that sonic booms ...

BOOM SUPERSONIC SAYS XB-1 AIRCRAFT FLEW OVER MACH 1 WITH NO AUDIBLE SONIC BOOM ON THE GROUND BELOW The aircraft, detailed in blueprints in a recent academic paper, is meant to reach Mach 1.6 and ...

The aircraft, detailed in blueprints in a recent academic paper, is meant to reach Mach 1.6 and have a barely audible sonic boom when the project comes to fruition, according to the outlet.