NASA is looking at developing a craft with a softer boom, and Boeing is also working on a prototype for supersonic commercial travel. Any new such service will likely face the same hurdles as Concorde ...
Flight experts say in ideal conditions, a sonicboom can be heard up to 30 miles away from the source. It’s not clear where the sonicboom created by the X-1 will be heard, but the test flight ...
That is, unless a new design could dispense with the sonicboom. Enter NASA’s latest—and by far sleekest—experimental aircraft, the X-59. The 100-foot-long, 29-foot-wide X-59 is the ...
Commercial supersonic flight sped closer to returning as the Boom Supersonic XB-1 prototype ... and without being trailed by the dreaded sonicboom. At the moment, the leader seems to be Boom ...
A sonicboom has reported to have been heard over Ryedale. The boom was heard loudest in Helmsley but was also felt in Malton. It happened at around 11am and caused buildings to shake and car ...