"This image makes the invisible visible — the first American made civil supersonic jet breaking the sound barrier." ...

Is there a way to take the boom out of the sonic boom? Between 1976 ... like water in a bow wave. This results in a shock wave of pressurized air molecules, which form a cone-shaped sheath ...

(WKRC) - A groundbreaking image has revealed what a sonic boom looks like ... The photograph, captured by NASA, shows the shock waves surrounding Boom Supersonic's demonstrator aircraft, the ...

NASA has released a new image showing the moment Boom Supersonic's XB-1 jet broke the sound barrier without producing an audible sonic boom. Boom Supersonic, the company aiming to create commercial ...

such as shock waves, around the supersonic aircraft. On Jan. 28, the aircraft broke the sound barrier on three separate runs without the sonic boom being heard or registered on the ground.

The noise heard and felt throughout southern Delaware and as far away as Cape May, New Jersey, on Monday was indeed a sonic boom. After saying Monday that Naval Air Station Patuxent River aircraft did ...

The XB-1, however, achieves a "boomless cruise" by utilizing a phenomenon called "mach cut off," where the sound waves are refracted upwards, and the sonic boom never reaches the ground.

The Colorado-based company says specialized photography from NASA shows the shock waves as Boom’s supersonic demonstrator achieved supersonic. They also confirmed no sonic boom reached the ...