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Boom Supersonic aircraft expects to break sound barrier over Mojave Desert
Flight experts say in ideal conditions, a sonic boom can be heard up to 30 miles away from the source. It’s not clear where ...
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.
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NASA's X-59 plane is aiming for a sonic thump, not a boom
That elongated proboscis is designed to pierce shockwaves created when aircraft top the speed of sound, and by doing so reduce sonic booms to ... basically taking an F-18 engine, F-16 ...
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Avenging the Concorde: Inside NASA’s quest to break the sound barrier
Sonic booms effectively killed the elegant Concorde ... and a General Electric F414-GE-100 engine from an F-18 fighter. Integrating this hodgepodge collection of borrowed components has been ...
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 ...