NASA and Boom Supersonic released an incredible photo capturing the shock waves of the supersonic XB-1 aircraft while it ...

NASA has released a new image showing the moment Boom Supersonic's XB-1 jet broke the sound barrier without producing an ...

But while the successful test flight of XB-1 shows that supersonic flight without sonic booms is technically feasible, the ...

A "son of Concorde" aircraft that may one day fly from New York to London in 1.5 hours has reached supersonic speeds. An ...

NASA teams on the ground at Mojave Space and Air Port in California used Schlieren photography — a process for photographing ...

the sound of air pressure waves combining to form a shock wave produced by the plane’s extreme speed. That sound—a sonic boom—can startle people on the ground and even shatter windows ...

They also confirmed no sonic boom reached the ground during XB-1 demonstrator ... It documents the changing air density around XB-1 and the resulting shock wave—making the invisible visible." ...

Boom Supersonic analyzed the data and found that no audible sonic boom reached the ground. This is notable, because supersonic flights that make sonic booms over populated areas in the U.S. are ...