‘New Concorde’: Boom’s XB-1 jet breaks sound barrier on first supersonic flight
Almost 22 years after Concorde made its final commercial flights, a prototype passenger jet is attempting to break the sound ...
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The company planning a successor to Concorde makes its first supersonic test
Denver-based Boom Technology's XB-1 demonstrator plane hit Mach 1.122 — 750 mph. It's the first independently developed ...
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Boom: America’s answer to Concorde completes its first supersonic flight
It’s now almost 55 years since the 002 prototype for Concorde first flew ... than 21 years since commercial supersonic travel ended with the Anglo-French airliner’s final flight in November ...
Will Boom bring boom time back to supersonic travel? 'New Concorde' prompts revival talk
Will Boom bring boom time back to supersonic travel? 'New Concorde' prompts revival talk - The aircraft developed by Boom ...
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Boom XB-1 Achieves Supersonic Flight—First Time Since Concorde In 2003
A picture of the Overture supersonic airliner at the Boom Technology exhibition hall, Farnborough International Airshow. (Photo by John Keeble/Getty Images) In the meantime as with Concorde ...
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Boom’s XB-1 aircraft breaks sound barrier: Is supersonic travel the future?
This comes 22 years after Concorde, the British-French supersonic airliner, retired in 2003. Boom has high ambitions, hoping to develop a supersonic commercial airliner which could become operational ...
London to New York in 3.5 hours: How Boom Supersonic is learning from Concorde’s mistakes
More than two decades after Europe’s failed attempt at a supersonic airliner, the USA is on track to make it work. View on ...
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This startup is closer than ever to reviving the Concorde era of supersonic flight
Impact Link Boom Supersonic just became the first US commercial ... that it plans to develop into a full-scale passenger airliner capable of hypersonic travel, or Mach 5, by 2030.
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Boom Supersonic's XB-1 prototype jet breaks sound barrier for first time
Concorde was a British-French supersonic airliner which predominantly flew routes between New York and London or Paris. It could accelerate up to around Mach 2 (1,354mph) - more than twice the ...