The company tested this technology during the second and ... three times without creating an audible sonic boom. “We broke the sound barrier not once, not twice, but actually three times ...

When traveling near the speed of sound, the plane came up against a "sound barrier"—as though the velocity of sound represented a wall through which a plane could not move. With technological ...

The International Civil Aviation Organization aligned on a recommended new standard for supersonic aircraft landing and ...

The original sound barrier was first broken on October ... Following the success of the XB-1, Boom Supersonic plans to extend the technology for the Overture supersonic airliner.

A newly released image shows the sound barrier being broken on February 10 ... Schlieren photography to capture the shock waves around Boom Supersonic’s demonstrator aircraft XB-1 as it pushed ...

"This image makes the invisible visible — the first American made civil supersonic jet breaking the sound barrier," Blake Scholl, Boom Supersonic founder and CEO, said in a statement. The photo ...

Boom Supersonic is partnering with NASA to capture specialized photography during supersonic flight testing for the XB-1 ...

America currently remains ahead of China when it comes to airplanes that can fly faster than the speed of sound, according to ...

Boom Technology’s supersonic demonstrator will ... Whereas the Concorde got past the sound barrier by using afterburners, Fehrm says Boom intends to skip the add-on thrust and instead use ...

NASA first visually captured supersonic shock waves in 2019 after a decade of research. The technology was developed in part ...

Previously, Dr. Hallion was curator of science and technology at the Smithsonian Institution. NOVA spoke with him on the eve of the 50th anniversary of the breaking of the sound barrier.