Brandenburg teased a future demonstration that also involves NASA – possibly hinting at a future joint flight with both the XB-1 and NASA’s X-59 experimental aircraft. The X-59 is designed to ...
in the X-1 aircraft in 1947. Reaching an altitude of 35,290 ft (19,756 m), the Boom XB-1 became not only the first commercial, piloted supersonic flight since Concorde retired in 2003, it was also ...
Boom CEO Blake Scholl wrote in a post on X over the weekend that ... orders for the proposed supersonic aircraft. Brandenburg landed the XB-1 safely just before 12 p.m. ET.
The location was symbolic, as it was the same California airspace where Chuck Yeager broke the sound barrier for the first time in 1947 in the Bell X-1, a rocket engine–powered aircraft that was ...
The aircraft, known as the "Heart X-1," is set to make history as the largest fully electric aircraft ever to fly. According to the company, the choice to conduct the groundbreaking flight at ...