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Boom Supersonic makes history, breaks sound barrier
On January 28, 2025, the Boom Supersonic XB-1 test aircraft achieved a record speed of Mach 1.13 during a flight over the ...
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Boom Supersonic's XB-1 Testbed Plane Breaks the Sound Barrier
Boom Supersonic ... passenger jet since Concorde. For example, one named Aerion never advanced to the point of bending metal ...
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Boom Supersonic's XB-1 Testbed Plane Breaks the Sound Barrier
This was the first time a civil aircraft had broken the sound barrier in level flight since the final flight of the Aérospatiale/British Aerospace Concorde in 2003. (A test version of a ...
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Boom Supersonic's XB-1 Testbed Plane Breaks the Sound Barrier
(A test version of a Bombardier ... of bending metal for its planned supersonic business jet, and a proposed joint venture between Gulfstream and the Russian manufacturer Sukhoi also went nowhere.
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London to New York in 3.5 hours: How Boom Supersonic is learning from Concorde’s mistakes
More than two decades after Europe’s failed attempt at a supersonic airliner, the USA is on track to make it work.
Supersonic jets are making a comeback. Here’s what that means for air passengers
American company Boom Supersonic just broke the sound barrier with a civilian plane. What exactly is supersonic travel, and ...
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London to New York in 3.5 hours: How Boom Supersonic is learning from Concorde’s mistakes
Just two supersonic passenger planes have ever entered service - the Russian Tupolev Tu-144 and the venerable Anglo-French Concorde. In total, 20 Concordes were built, although only 14 flew in ...
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Supersonic jets are making a comeback – but despite the hype, don’t expect to book yet
and by the 1970s we had supersonic passenger flight. There was the little-known Russian Tupolev-144 and Concorde, a Franco-British supersonic airliner operated by British Airways and Air France ...