American firm Boom Supersonic’s XB-1 has once again reached supersonic speeds without producing an audible boom, following ...

Despite all these technological advances, a supersonic aircraft still cannot beat physics. Shock waves, and their associated ...

In January, the aircraft successfully broke the sound barrier for the first time, reaching speeds exceeding Mach 1 at an ...

In response to an X post by Boom Supersonic founder Blake Scholl, the SpaceX founder said that Trump's new administration ...

Two weeks ago, Boom Supersonic’s XB-1 demonstrator plane made history when it broke the sound barrier over the continental ...

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 ...

in which "a sonic boom refracts in the atmosphere and never reaches the ground. This effect is achieved by breaking the sound barrier at a high enough altitude, with exact speeds varying based on ...

Making supersonic flight economically sustainable is arguably an even harder challenge than figuring out how to nullify the sonic boom’s disruptive effects on the ground. Supersonic travel has ...

in which a sonic boom refracts in the atmosphere and never reaches the ground. This effect is achieved by breaking the sound barrier at a high enough altitude, with exact speeds varying based on ...