While the plane’s engines were still audible on the ground, surpassing the Mach cutoff ensured no one heard a disruptive sonic boom. According to the company’s February 10th announcement ...
Supersonic aircraft maker Boom Supersonic announced its XB-1 test plane managed to perform a Mach cutoff maneuver that makes boomless flight possible ...
(Photo by John Keeble/Getty Images) In the meantime as with Concorde, the XB-1 test model can’t fly supersonic over land in the U.S. because of the powerful sonic boom. Today’s test over ...
Boom Supersonic says its XB-1 aircraft achieved supersonic flight without an audible sonic boom on the ground below. CEO ...
Making supersonic flight economically sustainable is arguably an even harder challenge than figuring out how to nullify the sonic boom’s disruptive effects on the ground. Supersonic travel has ...
Boom Supersonic announced Monday that its airliner could fly above Mach 1 without producing a sonic boom audible from the ground. As Concorde could only fly supersonic over water, this discovery ...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, Fla. — SpaceX is warning people in the Bahamas they could hear a sonic boom during their next rocket launch. SpaceX said it will attempt to land the first-stage booster of its ...