It was shadowed by two former fighter jets that Boom uses to monitor the XB-1 during the test flights. Scholl said the next step is to scale up the technology used on the XB-1 for Boom’s ...
Boom Supersonic made history today (Jan ... a Dassault Mirage F1 fighter jet, and a Northrop T-38 Talon, the same aircraft NASA uses to train its astronauts. The XB-1 landed roughly 30 minutes ...
Tristan “Geppetto” Brandenburg, Boom’s chief test pilot and a former Navy test pilot, made the flight yesterday. It followed a protocol that expanded its flight envelope through subsonic, transonic, ...