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In stunning images, NASA has revealed the moment an experimental supersonic aircraft broke the sound barrier without ...

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Sonic booms have long been a barrier to overland supersonic flights. The Concorde was banned from virtually every country in the world because of the thundering noise. Only the US, Great Britain, and ...

The silhouette of Boom's plane streaking across the sky is rendered in vivid shades of orange with the jet exhaust a pale ...

NASA has released a new image showing the moment Boom Supersonic's XB-1 jet broke the sound barrier without producing an ...

NASA has snapped a stunning image of a supersonic plane breaking the sound barrier – as its creators boast that there was “no audible sonic boom”. The Boom Supersonic XB-1 – dubbed a ...

A ground-based NASA team used Schlieren photography to capture and visualize the shock waves created by XB-1's supersonic ...

The US government agency captured the breaking of the sound barrier in a photo. "The invisible has become visible" thanks to ...