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Boom: America’s answer to Concorde completes its first supersonic flight
Boom Supersonic’s ambitions remain high ... if we have faster airplanes, we don’t need as many.” Like Concorde, the XB-1 and Overture both have a long nose and a high angle of attack ...
Forbes10d
Boom XB-1 Achieves Supersonic Flight—First Time Since Concorde In 2003
Boom Technology’s XB-1 test plane. On January 28, 2025, it became the first commercial-type aircraft to fly supersonic since the Concorde in 2003. Today, for the first time since Concorde was ...
New York Post9d
Supersonic jet dubbed ‘Son of Concorde’ breaks sound barrier for first time with 844 mph flight
The Concorde was discontinued soon after a catastrophic Air France crash in Paris in July 2000 that killed 109 on board and four people on the ground. Boom Supersonic CEO Blake Scholl posted on X ...
Yahoo10d
Boom: America’s answer to Concorde completes its first supersonic flight
BOOM It’s now almost 55 years since the 002 prototype for Concorde first flew at Mach 1 on March 25, 1970, and more than 21 years since commercial supersonic travel ended with the Anglo-French ...
Yahoo10d
Boom: America’s answer to Concorde completes its first supersonic flight
Meet Tristan “Geppetto” Brandenburg. - BOOM It’s now almost 55 years since the 002 prototype for Concorde first flew at Mach 1 on March 25, 1970, and more than 21 years since commercial supersonic ...