‘Son of Concorde’ jet completes final supersonic test flight as work begins on the world’s fastest new airliner SPEEDY flights that blast off faster than the speed of sound look set to return to skies as a US company reveals huge progress on a new Concorde-like service.
Boom says the data collected from XB-1’s supersonic flight establishes the possibility of Overture traveling up to 50 per cent faster than today’s jets over land without an audible boom.
But Boom has revealed a new Boomless Cruise technology which it claims can carry out supersonic flights with no audible sonic boom sound, enabling speedy flights over land.
But in order to comply with today’s regulations, Boom planned to operate Overture at Mach 0.94 over land - around 20 per cent faster than today’s subsonic jets - only breaking the sound barrier over water, where it would speed up to Mach 1.7, or twice as fast.
"XB-1 broke the sound barrier three times during its first supersonic flight—without an audible boom,” explained Blake Scholl, Founder and CEO of Boom Supersonic.
