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American company Boom Supersonic just broke the sound barrier with a civilian plane. What exactly is supersonic travel, and when can we expect it?

NASA also gathered sound data from the test flight. Boom Supersonic analyzed the data and found that no audible sonic boom reached the ground. This is notable, because supersonic flights that make ...

Boom Supersonic, a commercial aviation company behind the sonic boom-less XB-1, posted an image showing its experimental plane breaking the sound barrier. Captured during a successful test flight ...

During its historic first supersonic flight on January 28, 2025, Boom's demonstrator aircraft, XB-1, broke the sound barrier three times without generating a sonic boom that reached the ground ...

Fireballs Aotearoa, a group interested in meteorites, said a sonic boom was widely reported as the object came in overhead. Although most of its mass burned up in the fireball stage, it was ...

The data collected during XB-1's multiple supersonic runs allowed Boom to validate sonic boom models and improve the algorithms that predict operating in Mach cutoff. This data shows that ...

One of the major hurdles Boom has been trying to overcome with supersonic is the loud sonic boom, an issue that severely limited Concorde and contributed towards its demise. Concorde - which ...

When the experimental XB-1 aircraft broke the sound barrier three times during its first supersonic flight on 28 January, it did not produce a sonic boom audible from the ground, according to US ...