Flightglobal5h
Supersonic Overture beckons as Boom concludes XB-1 flight-test programme
US aerospace firm Boom Supersonic is expecting to reach design freeze on the Overture supersonic passenger aircraft in about ...
AeroTime11h
Boomless Cruise: How Boom Supersonic’s XB-1 breaks the sound barrier quietly
During the demonstration flight on January 28, 2025, the XB-1 broke the sound barrier three times, but not one of those ...
Sonic boom alert: SpaceX targeting two Falcon 9 rocket launches Monday from Cape Canaveral
Monday's SpaceX twin Falcon 9 missions are slated to become the 11th and 12th orbital rocket launches thus far this year from ...
New Atlas28d
Boom XB-1 pushes the sound barrier before supersonic flight
Commercial supersonic flight sped closer to returning as the Boom Supersonic XB-1 prototype ... and without being trailed by the dreaded sonic boom. At the moment, the leader seems to be Boom ...
WRAL27d
Loud boom rattles Wayne and Johnston counties; source of sound unknown
Some people speculated that the noise could have been caused by a sonic boom. WRAL News reached out to Seymour Johnson Air Force Base to ask about that possibility. In a statement a ...
Live Science20d
Boom Supersonic's next-generation XB-1 passenger plane 1 step away from breaking the sound barrier
"The second half of our test campaign is all about expanding XB-1's envelope incrementally in altitude, air speed, and Mach number until we inevitably make that sonic boom," Nick Sheryka ...