The anechoic chamber is equipped with 50 free-field microphones located 1.7m from the jet nozzle, covering polar angles from 30 degrees to 150 degrees. In addition to the high-speed jet facility, a ...

Boom Supersonic made history today (Jan. 28) when its XB-1 jet broke the sound barrier for the first time. Boom Supersonic's chief test pilot Tristan "Geppetto" Brandenburg took off in the company ...

A civilian jet broke the sound barrier for the first time Tuesday while making a historic test flight over the Mojave Desert. The XB-1 aircraft, manufactured by Boom Supersonic, was piloted by ...

Boom Supersonic XB-1 jet breaks sound barrier on historic test flight (video) The Feb. 10 test flight was the final one for XB-1. Now Boom Supersonic will take what they learned from the tests and ...