Boom Supersonic announced Monday that its airliner could fly above Mach 1 without producing a sonic boom audible from the ground. As Concorde could only fly supersonic over water, this discovery ...

Boom Supersonic announced that it could fly faster than the speed of sound without a sonic boom. Elon Musk backed the CEO's calls for regulatory changes to allow supersonic flights over land.

Supersonic flight has been banned over land by federal aviation law because of the disruptive nature of the unleashed sonic boom on the environment below. Boom’s XB-1 prototype is the first ...

While the plane’s engines were still audible on the ground, surpassing the Mach cutoff ensured no one heard a disruptive sonic boom. According to the company’s February 10th announcement ...

(Photo by John Keeble/Getty Images) In the meantime as with Concorde, the XB-1 test model can’t fly supersonic over land in the U.S. because of the powerful sonic boom. Today’s test over ...

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You might be wondering why this is news. Since Chuck Yeager’s first sonic boom in 1947, thousands of military aircraft have broken the sound barrier. Even some civilian aircraft have done it: the ...

Flight experts say in ideal conditions, a sonic boom can be heard up to 30 miles away from the source. It’s not clear where the sonic boom created by the X-1 will be heard, but the test flight ...

Here’s how it works. Boom Supersonic made history today (Jan. 28) when its XB-1 jet broke the sound barrier for the first time. Boom Supersonic's chief test pilot Tristan "Geppetto" Brandenburg ...

Tuesday morning at Mojave Air & Space Port in California, almost 80 years after U.S. Air Force ace Chuck Yeager first eclipsed the sound barrier in a Bell X-1, an independently built jet reached ...

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