The XB-1 experimental aircraft first becomes superior

The XB-1 experimental aircraft, made by the US company Boom Supersonic, flew faster than the sound speed on January 28. The achievement is the first time that any civil aircraft has become superior to the continental US – and another step towards the return of the supervisory commercial aviation.

“This jet really has a lot of technologies that allow us to enable us to build a supervisory aircraft,” said Greg Krauland, a former main engineer for Boom Supersonic, during a living course of test flight.

At the Mojave Air & Space port in California, the main test pilot Boom Supersonic Tristan “Geppetto” Brandenburg took the XB-1 on his twelve successful test flight and his first supervisory. An elegant white prototype, with a blue-yellow tail assembly, broke the sound barrier on the first passage in the test airspace, reaching speed from Mach 1.11. Then Brandenburg returned back two more supervisory rides before returning to Land.

The only aircraft that can currently achieve supervisory speeds are military combat planes and bombers. Though he threw Commercial airproof concorde Made transatlantic flights for several decades starting in the 1970s, withdrawn in 2003 due to more challenges, including high fuel costs and a deadly 2000 accident in which all 109 people were killed on board.

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The success of the XB-1 could announce the return for the supervisory commercial flight. Test flights should inform the design design Overture That boom supersonic says he would cruise on Machu 1.7 and transfer to 80 passengers. The company plans to start producing these planes this year and start wearing passengers on them in 2029 – and airlines such as United and American have already ordered.

Other supervisory aircraft are also ongoing, including the multinational company Dawn Aerospace and the US U.S. NASA space agency. Fresh than a turning point XB-1 flight, Brandenburg teasing a future demonstration that also includes NASA-maybe by hint of a future common flight with XB-1 and NASA X-59 experimental aircraft. X-59 is designed to minimize a shock wave that usually follows the supervisory flight to create a Sonic Thump not disrupting the sound boom.

“We’re working with NASA on something I’m pretty excited,” Brandenburg said.