The company tested this technology during the second and ... three times without creating an audible sonic boom. “We broke the sound barrier not once, not twice, but actually three times ...

When traveling near the speed of sound, the plane came up against a "sound barrier"—as though the velocity of sound represented a wall through which a plane could not move. With technological ...

A newly released image shows the sound barrier being broken on February 10 ... Schlieren photography to capture the shock waves around Boom Supersonic’s demonstrator aircraft XB-1 as it pushed ...

The International Civil Aviation Organization aligned on a recommended new standard for supersonic aircraft landing and ...

Surprising results from hypersonic air flow simulations could help design stronger, faster and more durable supersonic ...

Boom Supersonic CEO Blake Scholl told "Mornings with Maria" on Tuesday that America currently has a leg up on China when it ...

Boom Technology’s supersonic demonstrator will ... Whereas the Concorde got past the sound barrier by using afterburners, Fehrm says Boom intends to skip the add-on thrust and instead use ...

NASA first visually captured supersonic shock waves in 2019 after a decade of research. The technology was developed in part ...

At Mach 1, shock waves coming off a T-38 (seen using Schlieren photography) will coalesce to form a mighty boom. Along Seawall ... make when it crosses the sound barrier during flight tests ...

Previously, Dr. Hallion was curator of science and technology at the Smithsonian Institution. NOVA spoke with him on the eve of the 50th anniversary of the breaking of the sound barrier.