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Our Flights Can Break Sound Barrier Without a Sonic Boom

Sonic boom breakthrough for planemaker trying to build the next Concorde gets Elon Musk's backing

Boom hopes its breakthrough will allow supersonic flights over land, making US coast-to-coast flights 90 minutes faster.

PCMag on MSN · 1d

Boom Supersonic: Our Flights Can Break Sound Barrier Without a Sonic Boom

During the second supersonic flight of the XB-1 technology demonstrator today, the jet exceeded Mach 1 three times without a boom being detected by microphones on the desert floor below.

New Scientist on MSN · 1d

How the XB-1 aircraft went supersonic without a sonic boom

When the experimental XB-1 aircraft achieved supersonic speeds on a test flight, it did not create a disruptive sonic boom – thanks to a physics phenomenon called the Mach cutoff

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Boom Supersonic sans the sonic boom: The XB-1's quiet Mach 1 flight

If you've been keeping tabs on aviation news as of late, you saw that Boom Supersonic just recently broke the sound barrier ...

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‘Son of Concorde’ jet completes final supersonic test flight as work begins on the world’s fastest new airliner

SPEEDY flights that blast off faster than the speed of sound look set to return to skies as a US company reveals huge progress on a new Concorde-like service. Boom’s XB-1 jet, dubbed the ...

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Why did Concorde stop flying?

US aerospace firm wants to accept passengers by the end of 2029. But what was Concorde, its famous supersonic plane ...

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The company planning a successor to Concorde makes its first supersonic test

Denver-based Boom Technology's XB-1 demonstrator plane hit Mach 1.122 — 750 mph. It's the first independently developed supersonic jet. The company is also working on a supersonic passenger airliner.

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