NASA has released a new image providing photographic evidence of Boom Supersonic's XB-1 prototype aircraft breaking the sound barrier. Captured on the second supersonic flight, it used a special ...

NASA teams on the ground at Mojave Space and Air Port in California used Schlieren photography — a process for photographing ...

NASA teams on the ground used Schlieren photography to capture the shock waves around Boom Supersonic’s demonstrator ... now almost 55 years since the 002 prototype for Concorde first flew ...

Impact Link A startup wants to revive the era of the supersonic Concorde for the ... which has already been successfully demonstrated on Boom's XB-1 prototype. "The pilot gets a virtual window ...

Boom Supersonic independently designed and built the XB-1, the first civil supersonic jet in America. The XB-1's first supersonic flight last month was a success, breaking the sound barrier above ...

Boom Supersonic broke the sound barrier in late January with its XB-1 test jet, paving the way forward in the startup's efforts to build its own supersonic airliner. Boom and NASA released a ...

A "son of Concorde" aircraft that may one day fly from New York to London in 1.5 hours has reached supersonic speeds. An incredible image shows Boom Supersonic's XB-1 jet breaking the sound barrier.

The XB-1 aircraft, manufactured by Boom Supersonic, was piloted by Tristan "Geppetto" Brandenburg, the company said in a news release. The plane, nicknamed "Baby Boom," took off from Mojave Air ...

NASA and Boom Supersonic have teamed to create a technique that visualizes the shock waves generated out of the second supersonic test flight of its XB-1 prototype. The groups released the images ...