“The X-59’s shape is designed to prevent the shockwaves from coalescing together,” said NASA engineer Craig Nickol, outlining the fundamentals of a mission set to turn on its head a half-century of ...

Less than a year from the maiden flight, the first civil supersonic jet made by a private company aims to demonstrate technologies to pave the way for the return of supersonic airliners. The XB-1 ...

NASA engineer Bobby Sanders pioneered advanced supersonic and hypersonic engine inlet technology, earning eight patents and ...

Boom Supersonic’s XB-1 demonstrator took off for the first time on 22 March and completed a 12min maiden sortie during which it climbed to 7,120ft and hit 238kt (441km/h). Flying from Boom’s ...

Digitally optimized aerodynamics that allow the aircraft to remain stable at both supersonic and subsonic speeds, Carbon composite materials for construction of the aircraft, and Bespoke supersonic ...

Revival of supersonic air travel is a subject which has largely been relegated to ‘silly season’ status in the two decades since withdrawal of the BAC-Aerospatiale Concorde fleet. While no supersonic ...

Boom Supersonic’s (Denver, Colo., U.S.) supersonic demonstrator aircraft, XB-1, has taken to the skies again to successfully complete its thirdd flight. The flight was piloted by chief test pilot ...

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Boom Supersonic, the Colorado company building a radically faster commercial aircraft, announced that it has closed a $100 million Series B investment round, bringing total funding to over $141 ...

Only 66 years separated the first Wright brothers’ flight and the launch of the supersonic Concorde passenger jet. The engineer/optimist in me is therefore deeply disappointed air travel speeds have ...

The latter is no small feat because supersonic speed dramatically changes the aerodynamics of an aircraft, making missile launches or bomb drops extremely difficult, to put it mildly. At subsonic ...

On March 22, Boom Supersonic’s (Denver, Colo., U.S.) XB-1 supersonic aircraft demonstrator achieved its first successful flight in Mojave, California. Like Overture, XB-1 leverages technologies that ...