NASA has snapped a stunning image of a supersonic plane breaking the sound barrier – as its creators boast that there was “no audible sonic boom”. The Boom Supersonic XB-1 – dubbed a ...

CONCORDE was the supersonic passenger jet ... Several microphones and devices designed to record sound pressure levels were dropped across the flight path. And Boom says that the data shows ...

Virgin Galactic’s private jet represents a very bold step toward making supersonic travel a reality for an elite few. Unlike ...

American company Boom Supersonic flew faster than the speed of sound with its XB-1 supersonic demonstrator aircraft. It’s now ...

The shockwave caused by the Concorde breaking the sound barrier could regularly reach 135 decibels at ground level—enough to shake buildings or even shatter glass over a wide area. For years, it had ...

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

These recent noise improvements ... (Concorde flew at 60,000ft (18km) rather than the 40,000ft (12km) typical for most passenger jets) to take advantage of lower turbulence levels.

The aircraft was a remarkable feat of engineering but the enormous amount of noise they produced ... some of the problems Concorde faced. By operating at such high levels, the drone will be ...

On November 26, 2003, the plane that was once heralded as the future of aviation—the Concorde—took ... faster than the speed of sound (which, in air at sea level, is around 761 mph) pushes ...

We continue to see on-track benefits from changes to technical, racing and financial regulations that were part of the last Concorde ... The noise has been loud lately, but at the deepest level ...