Credit: Boom Supersonic/Cover Images Commercial aircraft will soon be ready to break the sound barrier again as Boom Supersonic’s demonstrator aircraft, the XB-1, has made its first supersonic flight.
Tuesday morning at Mojave Air & Space Port in California, almost 80 years after U.S. Air Force ace Chuck Yeager first ...
The test flight took place in the same Mojave Desert area in California where Charles "Chuck" Yeager first broke the sound ...
Former chief Concorde pilot for British Airways, Mike Bannister, told Independent: “I’ve been waiting over 20 years for the return of supersonic speeds, and XB-1’s historic flight is a major landmark ...
Boom is well on its way towards making sustainable supersonic flight a reality, aboard Overture – my number one choice as a successor to Concorde. "Congratulations to [CEO] Blake Scholl, all at Boom ...
The American-built civil supersonic jet is made from carbon fibre, and unlike Concorde’s droop nose, pilots use an “augmented reality vision system” to see past its long nose for takeoff and ...
"There we are XB-11 is supersonic, faster than the speed of sound - we've got confirmation from the control room that she is supersonic," commentator Mike Bannister, who is a former Chief Concorde ...
The American-built civil supersonic jet is made from carbon fibre, and unlike Concorde’s droop nose, pilots use an “augmented reality vision system” to see past its long nose for takeoff and landing.
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