XB-1 supersonic aircraft
Boom supersonic
The experimental XB-1 aircraft performed by the US company Boom Supersonic on January 28 flew fast at the speed of sound. The achievement is the first time any citizen aircraft has gone to supersonic on the continental US – and another step towards the possible withdrawal of supersonic commercial aviation.
“This jet has really many competent techniques that are going to make us a supersonic airliner for the public,” said Greg Krland, former Chief Engineer of Boom Supersonic during a vibrantity of the test flight.
In the Mojave Air & Space Port in California, the main test pilot Triston of Boom Supersonic “GEPPETTO” Brandenburg took the XB-1 on its twelfth successful test flight and the first supersonic one. Smooth white prototype with a blue and yellow tail assembly, broke the sound barrier on the first pass in the test aircraft, reaching a speed of about 1.11. Then Brandenberg flew around for two more supersonic runs before returning to the ground.
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Currently the only aircraft capable of reaching supersonic motion is military fighter jets and bombers. Although the Felted Commercial Airlineer Concords for many decades began in the 1970s made a transatlantic flights, it retired due to several challenges in 2003, including high fuel costs and a deadly accident in 2000 which included all 109 people on board Was killed.
The success of the XB-1 can make a comeback for supersonic commercial flight. Testing flights are to inform the design of a plan Overcher airliner That boom supersonic says that the Mach will cruise at 1.7 and take 80 passengers. The company plans to start production of these airlines this year and started carrying passengers on them in 2029 – and airlines like United and American have already ordered orders.
Other supersonic aircraft are also working, including multinational company Don Aerospace and US Space Agency NASA. Fresh from Milestone XB-1, Brandenberg teased the future performance, including NASA-to indicate the future combined flight with both XB-1 and NASA’s X-59 experimental aircraft. The X-59 is designed to reduce the shock wave that is usually accompanied by a supersonic flight to make a sonic Thap instead of a disruptive sonic boom.
“We are working with NASA, about which I am very excited,” Brandenberg said.
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