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The Concorde was the world's longest-serving supersonic airliner. It could cross the Atlantic in record time. Learn why this ...
The first dreams of supersonic air travel were crushed by annoyed Oklahoma City residents in the 1960s. Decades later, it ...
Revival of supersonic air travel is a subject which has largely been relegated to 'silly season' status in the two decades ...
The Alpena Combat Readiness Training Center (CRTC) verified in a statement on Facebook around 2 p.m. on Tuesday that the loud booms heard in and around Alpena were in fact sonic booms. “Your local ...
Now that ban, whose obtuse wording would apply even to a perfectly silent supersonic airplane if there were such a thing, is under new scrutiny, and NASA is studying ways of making sonic booms ...
We’ve demonstrated we can do it without a sonic boom.” Boom Supersonic’s XB-1 demonstrator aircraft broke the sound barrier for its first time ever in late January. During that highly ...
The South China Morning Post reported over the weekend that the Chinese state-owned Commercial Aircraft Corporation of China (Comac) is working on a supersonic jet called the C949. BOOM ...
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 ...
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The XB-1 went supersonic a total of three times during the test flight. An array of microphones were placed on the ground along the aircraft's flight path to confirm that the signature "BOOM ...
Boom Supersonic, a company working to develop passenger aircraft capable of traveling faster than the speed of sound, announced that its planes will be able to fly at supersonic speeds without the ...
Boom Supersonic achieved its goal on Jan. 28 of breaking the sound barrier with the XB-1 prototype of its Overture aircraft. The company plans to manufacture the Overture at its $500 million ...