✈️ Boom Supersonic’s XB-1 Breaks the Sound Barrier! 🚀 The US-made Boom Supersonic jet has reportedly reached 839 mph (Mach 1.1) during its latest test flight from Mojave Air and Space Port, California! 🏁 The 21-metre-long test aircraft is paving the way for the future of low-boom supersonic travel. One of Concorde’s biggest limitations was the sonic boom, which restricted supersonic flight over land. If Boom can develop an aircraft of similar size with little or no sonic boom, it could be a ga

3.22.24. XB-1 takes flight. Today, Boom’s supersonic demonstrator aircraft, XB-1 safely and successfully executed its first flight at the Mojave Air and Space Port in Mojave, CA., flown by XB-1 Chief Test Pilot Bill “Doc” Shoemaker. Test Pilot Tristan “Geppetto” Brandenburg flew the T-38 chase aircraft which monitored XB-1 in the air. Two decades after Concorde’s retirement, the first flight of XB-1 marks the return of a civil supersonic aircraft to the skies and paves the way for the revival of

XB-1, the world’s first independently developed supersonic jet, flew for the first time at the Mojave Air & Space Port in Mojave, California last Friday. Chief Test Pilot Bill “Doc” Shoemaker was at the controls when XB-1 took flight, and Test Pilot Tristan “Geppetto” Brandenburg monitored XB-1 in a T-38 chase plane. Here, you can see the view from the chase plane, which focused on how XB-1 flew and landed, including assessments of the aircraft’s handling qualities, airspeed, and its stability i