Boom Supersonic’s XB-1 goes supersonic for the first time
During its flight, which went supersonic around 11 minutes and 30 seconds after take-off, XB-1 was followed by two chase aircraft, a Dassault Mirage F1 and a Northrop T-38 Talon equipped with high-definition cameras and other specialized data-collecting equipment.
Today’s a day I’ve been looking forward to for more than a decade,” said Blake Scholl, Boom's visionary founder and chief ...
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United States Successfully Tests a New Supersonic Passenger AircraftThe American company Boom Supersonic has successfully conducted the first supersonic flight of its XB-1 aircraft in California, breaking the sound barrier by reaching a speed exceeding 1,382 ...
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Supersonic travel is a step closer as Boom flies demonstrator jet above Mach 1Boom Supersonic flew its XB-1 test jet at about the speed of sound, a major step as the company works toward the daunting job ...
The test flight took place in the same Mojave Desert area in California where Charles "Chuck" Yeager first broke the sound ...
More than two decades after Europe’s failed attempt at a supersonic airliner, the USA is on track to make it work. View on ...
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