CHINA’S state-owned aircraft company Comac has tabled plans for a stealthy supersonic jet that can fly at more than 1,200mph.

China’s state-owned aircraft company Comac has revealed plans for a stealthy supersonic jet that can fly at more than ...

We know what a sonic ... jet to break the sound barrier. Retired in February, it eclipsed Mach 1 six times across two test flights. But you wouldn’t be able to tell from the ground. Boom ...

The first details of C949, a supersonic airliner project, have been quietly unveiled by Chinese state-owned aerospace giant ...

Boom Supersonic built a supersonic plane for a fraction of the cost of NASA's X-59. Now all that's left to do is build it ...

NASA has snapped a stunning image of a supersonic plane breaking the sound barrier – as its creators boast that there was “no audible sonic boom”. The Boom Supersonic XB-1 – dubbed a ...

"We confirmed that XB-1 made no audible sonic boom," Scholl said in the same statement, "which paves the way for coast to coast flights up to 50% faster." — Boom Supersonic XB-1 jet breaks ...

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 company's XB-1 demonstrator jet reached speeds of Mach 1.122 during ... Faster-than-sound travel is prohibited over populated land, due to the sonic boom it causes, and Overture would not ...

Nasa also collected audio data on the jet while it was flying overhead. Analysis of this data showed that there was no sonic boom heard at ... a tyre and caused an engine to ignite.

Boom Technology began ground testing of the aircraft in December 2022. Following a comprehensive taxi test campaign, the aircraft performed its maiden flight on January 28, 2025. The aircraft became ...

One of the aims of the flight over the Mojave desert was to acquire a Schlieren photograph of the jet at supersonic speed ... whereby the sonic boom, under certain speed and atmospheric conditions ...