XB-1 supersonic aircraft
Boom Supersonic
The experimental XB-1 aircraft, made by the American company Boom Supersonic, flew faster than the sound speed of January 28. The performance is the first time that all civilian aircraft have gone supersonically over the continental United States – and another step towards the possible return of commercial aviation.
“This jet fee really has a lot of the enabiling technologies that will allow us to build a supersonic airplane for the masses,” said Greg Kraulaland, forming the chief engineer of Boom Supersonic, during a live stream of the test flight.
At Mojave Air & Space Port in California, Boom Supersonic’s main test pilot Tristan “Geppetto” Brandenburg XB-1 took on its twelfth successful flight and its first Supersonic. The slim white prototype, with a blue-yellow tail, broke the sound barrier on the first passport in the test air game and reached a speed of around Mach 1.11. Then Brandenburg flows back into two more supersonic races before returning to land.
The only aircraft currently capable of reaching supersonic speeds is military fighter jets and bombers. Although the legendary commercial Airliner Concorde made transatlantic flights for decades that started in the 1970s, it withdraws in 2003 due to several challenges, includes high fuel costs and a deadly accident in 2000 that killed all 109 people on board.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1m4Eff77-yo
The success of XB-1 could initiate a return for supersonic commercial flight. The test flights are designed to inform the design of a planned oven trips, as Boom Supersonic says would cross on Mach 1.7 and carry up to 80 passengers. The company plans to start producing these carriers this year and start carrying passengers on them in 2029 – and carriers liked, and US has already placed orders.
Other supersonic aircraft are also in the works included from multinational company Dawn Aerospace and US Space Agency NASA. Burner, fresh out of the Milestone XB-1 flight, teased a future demonstration that Somo involves NASA-hinting for a future joint flight with both XB-1 and NASAS X-59 experimental aircraft. The X-59 is designed to minimize the shock wave that usually accompanied supersonic flight to create a sonic dunk rather than a disturbing sonic boom.
“We are working with NASA on something that I am party excited about,” said Brandenburg.
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