How Boom Supersonic Achieved ‘Boomless Cruise’
The technology could allow for supersonic flights over land without disturbing anyone.
Boom Supersonic’s XB-1 flight demonstrator has repeatedly broken the sound barrier without generating any audible sonic booms on the ground, proving that quiet supersonic flight over land is possible. Now, more than 20 years since the retirement of the Concorde, is supersonic air travel on the verge of a resurgence? This story brought to us from BJT sister-publication Aviation International News.