NASA Photo Captures Boom’s XB-1 Breaking Sound Barrier Written 4 March 2025
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Boom’s XB-1 Supersonic Flight, January 28, 2025. | Credit: Boom Supersonic
CBS News reports, “A little over a month after a civilian jet broke the sound barrier, Boom Supersonic and NASA have released a photo of one of the aircraft’s historic test flights over the Mojave Desert. The image released Monday shows the XB-1 aircraft, which Boom Supersonic said is the “first civil supersonic jet made in America,” during its second supersonic flight on Feb. 10. The company said it partnered with NASA using a technique known as Schlieren photography to visualize what can’t be seen with the naked eye.”
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