US aeronautics agency NASA managed to capture the Boom Supersonic XB-1 research aircraft as it broke the sound barrier during ...
Last month in the skies above Mojave Air ... on Overture. The XB-1—which collected 525 minutes of total flight time across 13 test flights in less than one year—is just a prelude to Boom ...
The XB-1 is a piloted pathfinder vehicle designed to pave the way for Overture, Boom's planned commercial supersonic jet. The demonstrator is about one-third ... put it in the air in less than ...
but he reckoned that one day it’ll be used for all long-haul air travel. It’s the “future of aviation,” he declared. Construction was completed last year on Boom’s Overture Superfactory ...
The sound barrier was broken for the first time in 1947, when Air Force ... on Overture, a supersonic airliner that will ultimately "bring the benefits of supersonic flight to everyone," Boom ...
Boom Supersonic passed ... The XB-1 is a one-third-sized proof-of-concept meant to demonstrate the aerodynamics involved in Overture, the company’s proposed commercial supersonic jet.
In 2022, the Air Force awarded Boom a $60 million Strategic Funding Increase toward the Overture,"a potential future platform for the Air Force," according to Boom CEO Blake Scholl. Private ...
Boom Supersonic, the company building the world's fastest airliner, Overture, partnered with NASA to capture specialized ...
Boom quietly placed several microphone arrays along the XB-1's flight path. Despite the one-third-scale demonstrator ... Administration used U.S. Air Force jets to bombard Oklahoma City with ...