Supersonic flight could open door to faster air travel across country
NASA's Quesst Mission aims to develop a new supersonic jet that produces quiet sonic booms, allowing for faster-than-sound ...
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Boom’s XB-1 research jet shockwave captured during supersonic flight
US aeronautics agency NASA managed to capture the Boom Supersonic XB-1 research aircraft as it broke the sound barrier during ...
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See The Boom XB-1 Rip Through The Air As It Breaks The Sound Barrier
Boom Supersonic ... its own supersonic airliner. Boom and NASA released a unique image from the test flight over the Mojave Desert on Monday. The photograph visualizes the flow of air around ...
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An Inaudible Sonic Boom, Visualized
The company’s XB-1 “Baby Boom”—a demonstrator that is about one-third the size of ... which captures changing air densities around a supersonic aircraft as it eclipses the sun to visualize ...
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Civilian jet breaks sound barrier during historic test flight over Mojave Desert
Boom Supersonic said, and the plane is the "first civil supersonic jet made in America." The sound barrier was broken for the first time in 1947, when Air Force pilot Capt. Chuck Yeager flew a ...
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Incredible NASA photo captures sound barrier being broken
NASA teams on the ground used Schlieren photography to capture the shock waves around Boom Supersonic ... but he reckoned that one day it’ll be used for all long-haul air travel.
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Boom Supersonic Partners with NASA to Capture Iconic Image of Civil Supersonic Flight
NASA teams also collected data on XB-1's acoustic signature at one location ... Air Force. Symphony™ is the purpose-built turbofan engine that will enable supersonic flight. The Boom-developed ...
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Aircraft shatters sound barrier without sonic boom
A "son of Concorde" aircraft that may one day ... the air at supersonic speeds. NASA teams also collected data on XB-1's acoustic signature at one location on the flight route. Boom analysis ...