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‘New Concorde’: Boom’s XB-1 jet breaks sound barrier on first supersonic flight
Almost 22 years after Concorde made its final commercial flights, a prototype passenger jet has broken the sound barrier during a supersonic test flight. Boom Supersonic founder and CEO Blake ...
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Pan Am Once Test Flew the Concorde and Hooned the Heck Out of It, Here's the Wild Story
Since 2003, the type's been relegated to static museum service. Today, you can go and see museum exhibits of the Concorde in places across North America and Europe. Like at the USS Intrepid Air ...
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‘New Concorde’: Boom’s XB-1 jet breaks sound barrier on first supersonic flight
Almost 22 years after Concorde made its final commercial flights, a prototype passenger jet has broken the sound barrier during a supersonic test flight. Boom Supersonic’s XB-1 aircraft climbed over ...
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America’s answer to Concorde completes its first supersonic flight in a California desert
The XB-1 demonstrator aircraft is the first civil aircraft to break the sound barrier since the Concorde. The XB-1, which has now completed 12 successful test flights since it first took to the air in ...
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The company planning a successor to Concorde makes its first supersonic test
The supersonic planes were grounded but eventually returned to service. Always a money-loser, the Concorde was eventually retired in 2003.
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Boom: America’s answer to Concorde completes its first supersonic flight
It’s now almost 55 years since the 002 prototype for Concorde first flew at Mach 1 on March 25, 1970, and more than 21 years since commercial supersonic travel ended with the Anglo-French ...
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‘New Concorde’ breaks sound barrier during test flight, as owner 'plans commercial trips'
A supersonic jet built by US company Boom has broken the sound barrier for the first time since the Concorde during a test flight. Boom's Supersonic XB-1 demonstrator is the first civil aircraft to ...