NASA engineer Bobby Sanders pioneered advanced supersonic and hypersonic engine inlet technology, earning eight patents and ...

Digitally optimized aerodynamics that allow the aircraft to remain stable at both supersonic and subsonic speeds, Carbon composite materials for construction of the aircraft, and Bespoke supersonic ...

Less than a year from the maiden flight, the first civil supersonic jet made by a private company aims to demonstrate technologies to pave the way for the return of supersonic airliners. The XB-1 ...

Boom Supersonic has completed the second test flight of its XB-1 supersonic demonstrator. On August 26, 2024, the prototype aircraft took off with Chief Test Pilot Tristan Brandenburg at the controls ...

Somewhere over the California desert, a small white aircraft punched through the sound barrier twice, and nobody on the ground heard a thing. That, at least, is what Boom Supersonic is telling the ...

Revival of supersonic air travel is a subject which has largely been relegated to ‘silly season’ status in the two decades since withdrawal of the BAC-Aerospatiale Concorde fleet. While no supersonic ...

Boom Supersonic’s (Denver, Colo., U.S.) supersonic demonstrator aircraft, XB-1, has taken to the skies again to successfully complete its thirdd flight. The flight was piloted by chief test pilot ...

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Boom Technology's demonstrator XB-1 plane is bringing us closer to reliving supersonic travel once again. On its ninth test and development flight, the XB-1 broke its own PR for altitude, achieving ...

Only 66 years separated the first Wright brothers’ flight and the launch of the supersonic Concorde passenger jet. The engineer/optimist in me is therefore deeply disappointed air travel speeds have ...

Chinese aerospace giant Comac has unveiled its plans for the C949, a supersonic aircraft designed to fly 50% farther than the Concorde and produce sonic booms quieter than a hairdryer. Scheduled to ...

The boom-less supersonic jet race is on, following Boom Supersonic’s completion of testing earlier this year of its XB-1 test aircraft. The first successful U.S. commercial supersonic jet proved that ...