Supersonic Flight

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Mar 272 min read

Boom Supersonic XB-1 Take Its First Flight

Last week, the private aerospace company Boom Supersonic successfully completed the first flight of its XB-1 demonstrator aircraft, which...

Jan 244 min read

Skunk Works Rolls Out X-59, NASA's Newest X-Plane

Lockheed Martin Skunk Works rolled out the X-59, a unique experimental aircraft designed to quiet the sonic boom, at a ceremony in...

Nov 1, 20236 min read

Supersonic Passenger Flight May Be A Reality In the Near Future

This month marks the 20th anniversary of Concorde’s retirement and with it, a lengthy pause on regular, paying airline passengers, albeit...

Jul 5, 20239 min read

Tupolev Tu-144 - The Most Successful Failure in Aviation History

It is December 1968, and a truly ground-breaking airliner is about to take its first flight. It resembles a giant white dart, as...

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