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The Boom Overture Supersonic Aircraft: Everything We Know So Far

After more than two decades of silence in the skies following the retirement of Concorde, supersonic passenger flight is probably staging a comeback. Leading this new chapter is Boom Supersonic, an ...
Flying

Boom: Is This the Resurrection of Supersonic Travel?

Boom Supersonic aims to reintroduce supersonic passenger flight with its Overture airliner, having successfully flown its XB-1 demonstrator past Mach 1 and validated "boomless cruise" technology. A ...
WGHP

PTI congratulates Boom Supersonic on successful supersonic flight

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. GREENSBORO, N.C. (WGHP) — The airport that ...
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Boom XB-1's successful test flight revives talk of commercial supersonic travel

It was a step toward reviving supersonic commercial travel, which has been on hiatus since the Concorde jet was grounded more than two decades ago. Boom Supersonic has contracts with at least two ...
AOL

Supersonic flight is on its way back. I went on board the first Concorde, where it all began.

I went on board two Concordes, including the first prototype, at Paris's air and space museum. Concorde, retired in 2003 due to costs and a crash, flew at more than twice the speed of sound. Boom ...
WGHP

NASA captures photo of Boom’s landmark ‘boomless’ supersonic flight

MOJAVE, Calif. (WGHP) — A unique photograph captured another side of the historic test flight that paves the way for a next-generation jet to be built in Greensboro. Boom Supersonic, which broke ...
Flying

This Company Is Taking the ‘Boom’ Out of Supersonic Flight

Boom Supersonic's XB-1 demonstrator successfully achieved "Boomless Cruise," flying at supersonic speeds without an audible sonic boom reaching the ground, validating a long-sought physics concept ...
Yahoo

Boom Supersonic's XB-1 jet breaks sound barrier 3 times on final test flight (video, photos)

Boom Supersonic's XB-1 jet went out in style on Monday (Feb. 10). The XB-1 broke the sound barrier three times during its 13th and final test flight, which lifted off Monday from the Mojave Air & ...
Yahoo

Boom Supersonic has second supersonic flight Monday, announces ‘Boomless Cruise’

MOJAVE, Calif. (WGHP) — Boom Supersonic broke the sound barrier again Monday, after a successful flight last month. On Feb. 10, Boom Supersonic performed another supersonic flight with its ...
CNN

Incredible NASA photo captures sound barrier being broken

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Flightglobal

Supersonic Overture beckons as Boom concludes XB-1 flight-test programme

US aerospace firm Boom Supersonic is expecting to reach design freeze on the Overture supersonic passenger aircraft in about a week, as flight-testing of its experimental XB-1 jet concludes. The XB-1 ...