"The Shaped Sonic Boom Demonstrator was not intended to be ... And the greater the weight, the greater the shock wave that causes the boom. What you want is a way to have your cake and eat it ...

If NASA’s bet on its newest X-plane pays off, the long-nosed aircraft could revolutionize commercial aviation. That is, if history doesn’t repeat itself.

forming a shock wave. The abrupt pressure change creates the characteristic sonic boom heard on the ground, akin to an explosion or a thunderclap. If you have witnessed sonic booms on various ...

Boom Supersonic’s XB-1 aircraft broke the sound barrier during three test runs, a step toward the possible return of ...

This compression forms a shock wave, the energy of which is directly ... but it does go a long way towards eliminating the traditional “sonic boom”. On the ground, instead of one loud bang ...

American company Boom achieved a milestone Tuesday as its XB-1 aircraft exceeded the speed of sound for the first time during ...

A sonic boom is a sound associated with shock waves created when an object travels through the air faster than the speed of sound. Sonic booms generate enormous amounts of sound energy ...

The XB-1 aircraft accelerated to Mach 1.05 within about 11 minutes of taking off, according to Boom Supersonic and live video ...

Collier Aerospace supplied HyperX computer-aided engineering software to Swift Engineering for the structural sizing, ...