Tuesday morning at Mojave Air & Space Port in California, almost 80 years after U.S. Air Force ace Chuck Yeager first eclipsed the sound barrier in a Bell X-1, an independently built jet reached ...
One category: Flying supersonic in planes. Now I'm not a pilot - far from it - but I've broken the sound barrier in no less than seven separate aircraft. If I were chasing Guinness records (I'm ...
Boom Supersonic's XB-1 demonstrator craft could ... much higher altitude and therefore a lower air pressure. By flying so fast, so low in the latest test, the XB-1 achieved a record 383 knots ...
Boom Supersonic passed a major milestone Tuesday on its path to reintroduce supersonic commercial flights. After years of testing and refinement, a pilot flying the aerospace company’s XB-1 ...
Boom Supersonic aims for its future, larger Overture commercial aircraft to be capable of flying at a cruising speed of Mach 1.7, the Denver-based company said. It is supposed to be two times ...
It took off with a bang. Boom Supersonic’s XB-1 jet broke the sound barrier for the first time on Monday as the American company seeks to deliver the world’s faster airliner capable of ...