Boom Supersonic is one step closer to launching the spiritual heir to the Concorde. The US firm's XB-1 prototype reached a transonic speed of Mach 0.95 during Test Flight 11 on January 10, 2025. The ...

Supercruise sounds like marketing spin, but in aviation it describes a very specific and demanding trick: flying faster than sound for long stretches without lighting fuel‑guzzling afterburners.

Commercial supersonic flight sped closer to returning as the Boom Supersonic XB-1 prototype reached a transonic speed of Mach 0.95 during Test Flight 11 on January 10, 2025, in the skies over the ...

Nothing did more to accelerate the development of aviation in the 20th century than World War II. By the time the conflict was over in 1945, the fighters that first tangled five years previously were ...

It's fairly common knowledge that when a supersonic aircraft approaches the sound barrier, what follows is the sonic boom. This transitory period between subsonic and supersonic, known as transonic ...

CC0 Usage Conditions ApplyClick for more information. The Bell X-1 was an experimental aircraft designed to gather data on transonic speed: speeds close to the speed of sound. Find out how research ...

Transonic buffet is an aerodynamic instability encountered in the transonic flight regime. Manifesting as self-sustained oscillations of shock waves on the wing surfaces, this phenomenon leads to ...