Boom goes supersonic with XB-1 jet’s flight test
Boom Supersonic's XB-1 demonstrator aircraft broke the sound barrier during a flight test today, becoming the first civilian jet plane to go supersonic in 22 years.

"Supersonic civil flight is back," Boom CEO Blake Scholl declared in a posting to X / Twitter.

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Boom Supersonic gives its test plane a subsonic debut
After a decade of development, Boom Supersonic's XB-1 demonstrator jet took to the air today for the first in a series of test flights that will eventually lead beyond the sound barrier.

The flight at California's Mojave Air and Space Port achieved a top altitude o
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Super-quiet supersonic jet rolls out for a preview
Today's debut of NASA's X-59 low-boom supersonic jet brought not even a whisper of a sonic boom --- because it stayed on the ground at Lockheed Martin's Skunk Works facility in Palmdale, Calif.

But later this year, the long, pointy plane is due to test out technolo
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Air Force picks its builders for a swoopy kind of aircraft
Get ready for another prototype airplane that looks as if it flew in from the world of science fiction.

The Department of the Air Force has selected JetZero's design for a prototype aircraft t
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21 January 1976

21 January 1976: The first scheduled supersonic passenger airliners, Air France’s Concorde F-BVFA, and British Airways’ Concorde G-BOAA, took off simultaneously at 11:40 a.m. F-BVFA departed Paris en route Rio de Janero, with a stop at Dakar, and G-BOAA departed London Heathrow en route Bahrain. Air France Flight AF 085 was flown by Commandant de bord, Captain Pierre Jean Louis Chanoine-Martiel, with Captain Pierre Dudal, Chief Pilot, Concorde Division, as co-pilot; and Officier Mécanicien Navigant (Flight Engineer) André Blanc. The British Airways’ flight, BA 300, using the call sign “Speedbird Concorde,” was crewed by Captain Norman Victor Todd, Captain Brian James Calvert and Flight Engineer John Lidiard. The British Aircraft Corporation’s Chief Test Pilot, Ernest Brian Trubshaw, C.B.E., M.V.O., was also aboard. G-BOAA arrived on time at 15:20. F-BVFA, after a delay at Dakar, arrived at Rio de Janeiro at 19:00. In 1977, the Royal Aero Club awarded its Britannia Trophy to Captain Todd for “the most meritorious performance in aviation during 1976.” © 2019, Bryan R. Swopes Spread the love

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