an earsplitting sonic boom rang out. “It truly was one of the loudest things I’ve ever heard or experienced,” said Noah Pulsipher, an applied physics undergraduate at Brigham Young ...

We know what a sonic boom sounds like. But what does it look ... The firm relied on a physics concept called Mach cutoff, which engineers have long considered feasible but been unable to achieve.

NASA also gathered sound data from the test flight. Boom Supersonic analyzed the data and found that no audible sonic boom reached the ground. This is notable, because supersonic flights that make ...

Boom Supersonic plans to build the world’s fastest airliner, Overture, and this week announced a breakthrough in the development process. On January 28, the company’s XB-1 demonstrator ...

According to the company and NASA, the jet was able to fly without producing a sonic boom that was audible from the ground. During the first flight on January 28, the team placed microphones along ...

The acoustic data collected during the flight showed that no audible sonic boom reached the ground. This discovery is crucial, as supersonic flights producing sonic booms are prohibited over populated ...

The noise heard and felt throughout southern Delaware and as far away as Cape May, New Jersey, on Monday was indeed a sonic boom. After saying Monday that Naval Air Station Patuxent River aircraft did ...