Prior to 2003 a transatlantic trip from new york to london could be done in as little as 3 hours, compaired to today's fight ...

In a stunning, glowing image, NASA has captured the moment that Boom Supersonic’s XB-1 demonstrator broke the sound barrier ...

But while the successful test flight of XB-1 shows that supersonic flight without sonic booms is technically feasible, the ...

Similar to a delta wing, the Soviet-developed Tu-144 incorporated special retractable foreplanes (canards) to improve lift ...

Since Chuck Yeager’s first sonic boom in 1947, thousands of military aircraft have broken the sound barrier. Even some civilian aircraft ... The briefly worded regulation had a profound effect on the ...

Boom Supersonic, the company aiming to create commercial planes that can travel faster than the speed of sound, have ...

On Jan. 28, the aircraft broke the sound barrier on three separate runs without the sonic boom being heard or registered on the ground. On Feb. 10, XB-1 achieved supersonic flight on three shorter ...

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 ...

An incredible image shows Boom Supersonic's XB-1 jet breaking the sound barrier ... They also confirmed no sonic boom reached the ground during XB-1 demonstrator’s supersonic flights.

No other independently developed jet has ever broken the sound barrier prior to the XB-1 ... and the company did it with no audible sonic booms on the ground. The Boom Supersonic XB-1 (pictured ...