On its 12th test flight, the Boom XB-1 prototype broke the sound barrier three times and achieved a top speed of Mach 1.1.
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Hosted on MSNBoom Supersonic's XB-1 jet breaks sound barrier 3 times on final test flight (video, photos)Boom Supersonic's XB-1 pathfinder vehicle went out in style on Monday (Feb. 10), breaking the sound barrier three times on its 13th and final test flight.
About 35,000 feet (10,670 meters) over the Mojave Desert, northwest of Los Angeles, Boom Supersonic's XB-1 became the first privately funded airplane to break the sound barrier during a test flight on ...
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Interesting Engineering on MSNWatch: Boom Supersonic jet breaks sound barrier without sonic booms in final testBoom CEO Blake Scholl confirmed that on January 28, the XB-1 successfully broke the sound barrier three times without creating an audible sonic boom. “We broke the sound barrier ...
Boom Supersonic, the American company building what promises to be the world’s fastest airliner, broke the sound barrier for its first time with a test flight in Mojave, California, on Tuesday.
American company Boom achieved a milestone Tuesday as its XB-1 aircraft exceeded the speed of sound for the first time during a supersonic test flight. The last flight of a supersonic airliner, ...
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The Manual on MSNBoom Supersonic announces breakthrough in travel at the speed of soundBoom Supersonic plans to build the world’s fastest airliner, Overture, and this week announced a breakthrough in the ...
A startup wants to revive the Concorde for the generations of flyers that missed out, without the noisy boom and the up to ...
Despite all these technological advances, a supersonic aircraft still cannot beat physics. Shock waves, and their associated drag, will still exist. So, a single supersonic aircraft will still produce ...
Boom Supersonic independently designed and built the XB-1, the first civil supersonic jet in America. The XB-1's first ...
The Boom Supersonic aircraft exceeded Mach 1 after taking off from the Mojave Air and Space Port in California for its highly anticipated 12th test flight.
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