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Watch: Boom Supersonic jet breaks sound barrier without sonic booms in final test
Boom CEO Blake Scholl confirmed that on January 28, the XB-1 successfully broke the sound barrier three times without creating an audible sonic boom. “We broke the sound barrier ...
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Boom XB-1 Achieves Supersonic Flight—First Time Since Concorde In 2003
Boom Technology’s XB-1 test plane ... just over Mach 1.1 three times during its one-half-hour test flight out of California’s Mojave Air And Space Port. The XB-1 first flew in March 2024 ...
Investors Fuel AI Boom Across California
California has long been synonymous with technological innovation, and the latest surge in Artificial Intelligence (AI) development is no exception. Driven by substantial venture capital investment, ...
San Diego Union-Tribune29d
First independently developed jet breaks the sound barrier over the California desert
The flight at the Mojave Air & Space Port in Mojave, California ... flight demonstrates that the technology for passenger supersonic flight has arrived,” Boom founder and CEO Blake Scholl ...
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Boom without the boom: Validation of quiet supersonic flight opens new uses for Greensboro-built planes
Boom attributed the high-altitude Mach capability to technology being developed for ... 12th and final test flight of the XB-1 Monday in California's Mojave Desert, Scholl elaborated on the ...
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Boom Supersonic XB-1 demonstrator aircraft makes successful flight in California
The flight marks a significant milestone in the advancement of aviation technology, PTI says. "Boom Supersonic's accomplishment ... Mojave Air & Space Port in California and exceeded Mach 1 ...
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Experimental jet achieves supersonic flight, minus the boom
Boom Supersonic ... near Barstow, California to its original home in Denver, Colorado. Once there, the company intends to “focus its full efforts on scaling XB-1 learnings and technology to ...