Each time one flies above Mach 1 is special. Most commercial pilots have never done it. Our reporter is not a pilot, but he’s ...
happened in the Bell X-1 Supersonic Corridor—a piece of airspace, designated for such high-speed activities, between Mojave, a civilian facility, and Edwards Air Force Base, one of America’s ...
Boom Supersonic's XB-1 demonstrator plane just went supersonic in the skies over California's Mojave Desert, making it the ...
The Air Force announcement is somewhat surprising considering the work that is already being done on the newest upcoming Air Force One generation. Still, as ...
The supersonic commercial jet company with ambitious plans in North Carolina is set to break the sound barrier within a week.
Almost 22 years after Concorde made its final commercial flights, a prototype passenger jet is attempting to break the sound ...
The flight is expected to last between 30 and 45 minutes, according to Boom, and the test plane should reach a cruising speed of Mach 1.1 in two specially designated supersonic corridors close to ...
Tuesday morning at Mojave Air & Space Port in California, almost 80 years after U.S. Air Force ... first supersonic flight possible,” said Brandenburg. The Baby Boom is only about one-third ...
Boom Supersonic's XB-1 demonstrator jet became ... 14, 1947, according to the U.S. Air Force. That's when Capt. Chuck Yeager and the Bell X-1 rocket-propelled aircraft broke the sound barrier.