NASA and Boom Supersonic released an incredible photo capturing the shock waves of the supersonic XB-1 aircraft while it ...

Prior to 2003 a transatlantic trip from new york to london could be done in as little as 3 hours, compaired to today's fight ...

Boom Supersonic, the company aiming to create commercial planes that can travel faster than the speed of sound, have ...

But while the successful test flight of XB-1 shows that supersonic flight without sonic booms is technically feasible, the ...

NASA teams on the ground at Mojave Space and Air Port in California used Schlieren photography — a process for photographing ...

American company Boom Supersonic just broke the sound barrier with a civilian plane. What exactly is supersonic travel, and when can we expect it?

the sound of air pressure waves combining to form a shock wave produced by the plane’s extreme speed. That sound—a sonic boom—can startle people on the ground and even shatter windows ...

They also confirmed no sonic boom reached the ground during XB-1 demonstrator ... It documents the changing air density around XB-1 and the resulting shock wave—making the invisible visible." ...

A "son of Concorde" aircraft that may one day fly from New York to London in 1.5 hours has reached supersonic speeds. An ...