THE XB-1 ‘Son of Concorde’ jet is expected to reach speeds faster than sound for roughly to four minutes in an upcoming ...

SON of Concorde’ XB-1 jet is “on track” to break the sound barrier in early 2025, makers of the supersonic plane have announced. In its first major update of the year, ...

Subsonic - anything below the speed of sound; such as current passenger airliners Supersonic ... bigger with hypersonic flights. They'd be even more expensive and also cause a sonic boom.

If NASA’s bet on its newest X-plane pays off, the long-nosed aircraft could revolutionize commercial aviation. That is, if ...

and since then the idea of supersonic flight has mostly been grounded. Many countries have blocked planes from travelling at such high speed due to the disturbance from noisy sonic booms when they ...

Supersonic and hypersonic are basically one and the same ... The US banned them even earlier, in 1973, because the sonic booms were so loud they made people's windows rattle.

A high-speed aeroplane creates shock waves through the air that compress the faster it goes The key to eliminating the sonic boom is in the design of an airframe. In a conventional supersonic jet ...