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The Boom XB-1 "Baby Boom" is a one-third-scale trijet supersonic demonstrator designed by Boom Technology as part of the development of the Boom Overture supersonic transport airliner. Powered by three General Electric J85 engines, [ 2 ] it is designed to maintain a speed of Mach 2.2, with over 1,000 nautical miles (1,900 km; 1,200 mi) of range.
Boom Supersonic, the American company building what promises to be the world’s fastest airliner, broke the sound barrier for its first time with a test flight in Mojave, California, on Tuesday.
Almost 22 years after Concorde made its final commercial flights, a prototype passenger jet has broken the sound barrier during a supersonic test flight. Boom Supersonic’s XB-1 aircraft climbed ...
Boom Supersonic’s XB-1 jet broke the sound barrier for the first time on Monday as the latest test flight indicated the aircraft hit 844 mph out of California’s Mojave Air and Space Port.
An aircraft developed by Boom Supersonic became the first independently funded jet to break the sound barrier this week. The XB-1 aircraft accelerated to Mach 1.05 at about 35,000 feet during a test flight Tuesday in the same Mojave Desert airspace in California where Charles “Chuck” Yeager was the first person to break the sound barrier in 1947.
Boom Supersonic's XB-1 test jet broke the sound barrier for the first time on Tuesday. The XB-1 is a subscale version of its planned passenger model. The company's CEO says the US aviation market ...
The XB-1 aircraft accelerated to Mach 1.05 within about 11 minutes of taking off, according to Boom Supersonic and live video of the test flight. The flight at the Mojave Air & Space Port in Mojave, California, took place as the company works to revive supersonic passenger travel, which died with the grounding of the Anglo-French Concorde more ...
Boom Technology, Inc. (trade name Boom Supersonic) is an American company designing a supersonic airliner named the Overture. [2] The company is also flight-testing their one-third-scale demonstrator: the Boom XB-1 "Baby Boom" . [ 3 ]