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Boom Supersonic's XB-1 Plane Breaks Its Speed Record Blasting Towards Sound Barrier
Boom Supersonic's XB-1 aircraft has achieved its fastest speeds yet, blasting towards its goal of surpassing the speed of ...
NASA's X-59 Quieter Sonic Boom Supersonic Test Plane Fires Up Its Engine For The 1st Time
The aircraft is powered by a modified F414-GE-100 engine capable ... However, the X-59 will emanate a softer "thump" rather ...
CEO of failed supersonic plane startup on what went wrong — and how other companies might find success
Supersonic aviation startup Exosonic, which was working on commercial and military faster-than-sound jets, shutdown after ...
The Aviationist on MSN8d
NASA’s X-59 Quiet Supersonic Aircraft Fires Up Engine For The First Time Ahead Of First Flight
X-59’s engine started for testing for the first time. NASA’s Quesst (“Quiet SuperSonic Technology”) mission recently achieved ...
NASA fires up its X-59 quiet supersonic jet engine for the first time
But NASA wants to show that faster-than-sound travel is possible without the annoyance of the boom, which is where its X-59 ...
Inside the plans for a Chinese hypersonic plane that will fly from London to New York in less than two hours
Having spent time working in Shanghai the last time there was talk of a ‘super plane’, Jonathan Margolis gives his verdict on ...
Ultra-quiet 937mph Nasa plane would make London to NYC trip in 3.5 hours with ‘sonic thump’ instead of ‘banned’ boom
"The X-59’s thin, tapered nose accounts for almost a third of its length and will break up the shock waves that would ...
Where do the most sonic booms occur and why?
The BBC looks at why sonic booms are more common in the East of England and whether there could be many more in future. A ...
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Some people heard sonic boom loud and clear following latest launch
The latest SpaceX launch from Vandenberg became a topic of conversation due to the loud sonic boom that followed. Even ...
NASA runs first engine tests on supersonic X-59 research aircraft
NASA engineers fired the engines on the X-59 research aircraft in advance of planned test flights to determine if the ...
Long Island Business News3d
LI mayors form oversight coalition on new supersonic airliners
With the recent successful test flights of Boom’s prototype aircraft, that effort begins now with communities ... to begin “a ...
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Startup Exosonic goes from supersonic boom to bust
Another example of how the bleeding edge aerospace sector is going through a massive shakeup has surfaced as civilian supersonic startup Exosonic has announced that it is going out of business after ...