Boom, the American company building what promises to be the world's fastest airliner, broke the sound barrier for its first ...
The return of supersonic travel has been remarkably slow for something faster than the speed ... Concorde, the XB-1 and Overture both have a long nose and a high angle of attack for takeoff and ...
Boom Supersonic passed a major milestone Tuesday on its path to reintroduce supersonic commercial flights. After years of ...
Former Concorde ... away from the landing strip. The plane is now decelerating and descending back to the runway in the Mojave Desert after its third surge into supersonic speed, where it hit ...
Denver-based Boom Technology's XB-1 demonstrator plane hit Mach 1.122 — 750 mph. It's the first independently developed ...
THE 'Son of Concorde' XB-1 jet has successfully reached ... where Chuck Yeager became the first person to fly faster than the speed of sound in 1947, in his Bell X-1 plane.
the speed of sound. The American-built civil supersonic jet is made from carbon fibre, and unlike Concorde’s droop nose, pilots will use an “augmented reality vision system” to see past its ...
Boom’s XB-1 jet breaks sound barrier on first supersonic flight - Boom’s inaugural XB-1 supersonic test flight reached speeds ...
A prototype of a passenger jet meant to succeed Concorde has broken the sound barrier ... 34,000ft before accelerating to Mach 1.1 speed (770mph) - the speed of sound Watch the test flight live ...