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Boom Supersonic's XB-1 smashes the sound barrier — becoming the 1st civil aircraft to go supersonic in US history
By achieving a top speed of Mach 1.1, Boom Supersonic has broken records and is on course to revive supersonic passenger ...
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Boom Supersonic's prototype jet breaks the speed of sound
A prototype of a passenger jet designed to succeed the supersonic Concorde broke the sound barrier for the first time on ...
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Boom: America’s answer to Concorde completes its first supersonic flight
Boom Supersonic, the American company building what promises to be the world’s fastest airliner, broke the sound barrier for ...
Intense jet stream has planes moving faster than the speed of sound on flights bound for Europe
The colder it gets, the faster they fly. Commercial flights bound for Europe have been taking off late from the States but ...
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Higher tier: Measuring the speed of sound using the flash-bang method
A person fires a starting pistol. A distant observer stood 200 metres away (measured using a 20 m tape measure or trundle wheel) records the time between seeing the flash of light from the ...
Watch Boom supersonic jet break sound barrier on path to speed up commercial flights
Boom's Supersonic XB-1 jet became the “world’s first independently developed supersonic jet” to break the sound barrier ...