So-called Rayleigh–Bloch waves can release an enormous amount of energy that can damage technical systems under certain circumstances. They only exist below a precisely defined cut-off frequency ...

After reaching an altitude of approximately 35,000 feet (around 10,670 ... noise caused by shock waves generated as the aircraft crosses the sound barrier. Commercial supersonic flight: A ...

These disturbances move at the speed of sound. In supersonic flight these disturbances combine to form shock waves around the vehicle. When people say you can see a fighter jet before you hear it ...

An aircraft developed by Boom Supersonic became the first independently funded jet to break the sound barrier this week. The XB-1 aircraft accelerated to Mach 1.05 at about 35,000 feet during ...

With special permission granted by the FAA to fly high above California’s Mojave Desert and across the designated Bell X-1 Supersonic Corridor, Chief Test Pilot Tristan “Geppetto” Brandenburg broke ...

A Carnegie Mellon University grad is behind the successful flight earlier this week of the first independently developed jet to break the sound barrier. The flight of the XB-1 demonstrator aircraft by ...

American aerospace startup Boom Supersonic achieved a historic milestone by breaking the sound barrier with its XB-1 demonstrator jet. The monumental test flight was broadcast live from California ...

Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. The Boom Supersonic’s XB-1 aircraft breaks the sound barrier, Mach 1, during a test flight Tuesday, Jan ...