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NASA's new supersonic X-59 jet hits the afterburner (photos)
In new photos, the X-59 performs afterburner tests at Lockheed Martin's legendary Skunk Works facility in Palmdale, ...
Boom Supersonic aircraft expects to break sound barrier over Mojave Desert
The countdown has begun for the XB-1’s “historic” first supersonic test flight that should break the sound barrier, according ...
Independently funded jet’s sound barrier mark revives talk of commercial supersonic travel
An aircraft developed by Boom Supersonic has become the first independently funded jet to break the sound barrier.
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Experimental XB-1 aircraft goes supersonic for the first time
Boom Supersonic’s XB-1 aircraft broke the sound barrier during three test runs, a step toward the possible return of ...
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First private-built supersonic plane smashes sound barrier
Boom Supersonic has gone, well, supersonic, its XB-1 prototype breaking the sound barrier today in the skies over the Mojave Air & Space Port in California. With Chief Test Pilot Tristan Brandenburg ...
Boom XB-1 Achieves Supersonic Flight—First Time Since Concorde In 2003
Today a civil test airliner, Boom Technology’s XB-1, broke the sound barrier for the first time in two decades.
Boom Supersonic’s X-B1 Plane Breaks Sound Barrier, Bringing Supersonic Travel Closer to Reality
The aerospace company put its technology to the test today, breaking the sound barrier and reviving the dream of supersonic ...
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Is This the Beginning of the Second Supersonic Age?
It happened, folks. On Tuesday, Boom Supersonic’s XB-1 jet — colloquially known as “Son of Concorde,” a reference to the ...
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Boom Supersonic aircraft expects to break sound barrier over Mojave Desert
The test flight for the Boom Supersonic XB-1, a prototype aircraft ... Flight experts say in ideal conditions, a sonic boom can be heard up to 30 miles away from the source. It’s not clear ...