When the object breaks the sound barrier, this pressure wave cascades outward in a cone shape, forming a shock wave. The abrupt pressure change creates the characteristic sonic boom heard on the ...

BOOM! What was the earth-shaking, jolt-you-awake, set-off-the-car-alarm sound? Oh right, a rocket launch. But why are some ...

Collier Aerospace supplied HyperX computer-aided engineering software to Swift Engineering for the structural sizing, ...

This cone-shaped shock wave wouldn't be a problem ... only one—to significantly ameliorate the sonic boom. In 1971, building on work done in the 1960s by NASA's Ed McLean and Harry Carlson ...

Design & analysis software used for structural sizing, analysis, and test validation of 35ft structure.

That’s how Boom avoids the need for a nose cone that must hinge downward like the Concorde’s “droop snoot” to ... 94—about 20% faster than today’s airliners—to comply with a federal ban on civil ...

That is, unless a new design could dispense with the sonic boom. Enter NASA’s latest—and by far sleekest—experimental aircraft, the X-59. The 100-foot-long, 29-foot-wide X-59 is the ...