Boom’s XB-1 becomes first civil aircraft to go supersonic
Boom Supersonic's XB-1 demonstrator plane just went supersonic in the skies over California's Mojave Desert, making it the ...
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Experimental XB-1 aircraft goes supersonic for the first time
Boom Supersonic’s XB-1 aircraft broke the sound barrier during three test runs, a step toward the possible return of ...
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Boom XB-1 Achieves Supersonic Flight—First Time Since Concorde In 2003
(Photo by John Keeble/Getty Images) In the meantime as with Concorde, the XB-1 test model can’t fly supersonic over land in the U.S. because of the powerful sonic boom. Today’s test over ...
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Boom Supersonic's next-generation XB-1 passenger plane 1 step away from breaking the sound barrier
and Mach number until we inevitably make that sonic boom," Nick Sheryka, c hief flight test engineer for the XB-1 at Boom Supersonic, said in a promotional video. — Boom Supersonic's XB ...
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Boom Supersonic's XB-1 Testbed Plane Breaks the Sound Barrier
Boom Supersonic's XB-1 demonstrator aircraft soared past the ... with a federal ban on civil supersonic flight meant to limit sonic booms. Boom aims to roll out its first Overture from its ...
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Boom's XB-1 becomes first civil aircraft to go supersonic
Boom Supersonic's XB-1 demonstrator plane just went supersonic ... Scholl spoke with TechCrunch editor-in-chief Connie Loizos for the StrictlyVC Download podcast. "I think the thing we need ...
Boom XB-1's successful test flight revives talk of commercial supersonic travel
Boom's Overture commercial airliners would be built at the Greensboro Superfactory.
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First private-built supersonic plane smashes sound barrier
Boom Supersonic has gone, well, supersonic, its XB-1 prototype breaking the sound barrier ... without causing a sonic boom. "It has been a privilege and a highlight of my career to be a part ...
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Boom’s supersonic test plane breaks the sound barrier for the first time
Ten months after its long-delayed first subsonic flight took place last March, Boom Supersonic’s prototype test plane, the XB-1, broke the ... everything you need to download, watch, read ...