NASA teams on the ground used Schlieren photography to capture the shock waves around Boom Supersonic’s demonstrator aircraft XB-1 as it pushed through the air. “This image makes the invisible ...

When the experimental XB-1 aircraft broke the sound barrier three times during its first supersonic flight on 28 January, it did not produce a sonic boom audible from the ground, according to US ...

People were aware of sonic booms, as military jets were capable of breaking the sonic barrier for a decade. However, there was no hard data about prolonged exposure to booms. The FAA decided to ...

and the company did it with no audible sonic booms on the ground. The Boom Supersonic XB-1 (pictured here in an earlier flight) flew Mach 1.122 in Boomless Cruise ... no one on the ground could ...

None of the three sonic booms generated by the XB-1 on Monday were audible from the ground, which helps to explain why Boom is so confident that supersonic passenger flight can come back.

There is the possibility that residents of and visitors to the Bahamas may hear one or more sonic booms during the landing, but what may be experienced will depend on weather and other conditions.