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A specialized photo known as a Schlieren picture that was created during a test flight by Boom Supersonic XB-1 Jet on February 10, 2025. | Credit: NASA/BOOM -SÜBSCHULL
NASA and Boom-Superic have just released an incredible photo on which a shock wave from the dark silhouette of the overshall XB-1 aircraft runs out, while during a test flight on February 10, they drove in front of the sun, in which the sonorous barrier broke three times.
“This picture makes the invisible visible -the first American made the civilian surplus -Jet the sound barrier,” Blake Scholl, Boom Supersonic founder and CEO, CEO, said in an explanation.
The photo was no coincidence. It required ideal conditions and perfect timing. The boss test pilot Tristan “Geppetto” Brandenburg cut a path to a precise place via the Mojave desert while NASA grabbed the shot.
“Thanks to Geppetto’s extraordinary flying and our partnership with NASA, we were able to grasp this iconic picture,” continued Scholl.
The photo is a streak image. The Schlager photography developed by the German physicist August Toepler in 1864 in August for overdriving is used in today’s aviation technology. The method can show how light bends by differences in air pressure during the overs sound flight.
The software created the XB-1 team using NASA data to lead the pilot on a path where the plane could put the sun in the shade. When the XB-1 entered the right point, NASA received the photo with soil telescopes with special filters that recognize air distortions. That is why the shock waves around the aircraft are visible in the photo.
The XB-1 jet from Boom Supersonic, the first civil aircraft that is overwhelmed via the continental United States. | Credit: Boom Supersonic
The NASA also collected tond data from the test flight. Boom Supersonic analyzed the data and found that no audible sound boom reached the ground. This is remarkable because overhaul flights that make sound booms about populated areas in the United States are prohibited.
Boom Supersonic plans to make an overview aircraft with a sound boom that does not bother people on site. This aircraft would reduce flight times for cross -term. “We have confirmed that XB-1 did not make an audible sound boom,” said Scholl in the same explanation, “what paves the way for coastal coast flights up to 50% faster.”
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The test flight on February 10th was the last one for XB-1. Now Boom Supersonic will take what you have learned from the tests and build an overs sound aircraft called overture.
Last year, the Boom Supersonic ended the construction of its Super Factory in Greensboro, North Carolina, which will ultimately pump out 66 overture per year, starting with half. United Airlines, American Airlines and Japan Airlines already have orders and pre -orders for the overview aircraft.
