Fast and noisy boom: a voice plane broke the sound barrier

History in Games: The American Boom Supersonic company recorded an impressive achievement when its experimental aircraft, the XB-1, broke the sound barrier during an experimental flight held over the Mohabi Desert in California. This flight symbolizes a significant milestone on the way to returning the super-loud commercial flights, and provoking hope for a faster future in the aviation world.

Last Tuesday, the XB-1, an innovative experimental aircraft, took off from California and performed its super-voice flight. After reaching a height of about 35,000 feet (about 10,670 meters), Boom’s Chief Experiment, Tristan “Jepto” Brandenburg, opened the plane’s unfortunate and accelerated it beyond the speed of voice, and reached the speed of Mach 1.1, which is about 1,360 CM. Brandenburg sounded excited after landing, saying that “she was happy to be a voice. It was her best flight so far. ”

Culinary flight occurs when a plane flew at the higher speed of voice. Voice speed varies according to environmental conditions, but in general it is about 343 meters per second (about 1,235 km / h) in the air at a temperature of 20 ° C. When a plane approaches the sound speed, air pressure causes the sound waves and create “boom on -Oy ” -A strong and sudden noise caused by the created shock waves when crossing the sound barrier.

Remember the Concord plane was a plane on my voice. He was one of the only two vocal passenger planes that were traded in a commercial way, with the other being the Russian Topolba. The Concord flew at more than 2 Mach, which allowed it to cross the Atlantic in less than three hours. By comparison, a regular passenger plane crosses the Atlantic about 8 hours.

The success of the XB-1 experimental flight indicates an important achievement for Boom Supersonic and for the airport world in general. This is the first time a private funding plane has been able to break the sound barrier, and is a significant milestone on the way to returning the super-loud commercial flights.

The XB-1 is a demonstration aircraft designed to examine innovative technologies that will be integrated into Boom’s future super-commercial aircraft, the “obitator”. The obitator is planned to carry 64-80 passengers and fly at about 2.2 mach (about 2,700 km / h), which will allow for significant shortening of flight times. 7 hours today.

Boom Supersonic has already received 130 orders and “early orders” from large airlines such as American Airlines, United Airlines and Japan Airlines. Last year, the company completed the construction of the “Obrator Superfector” factory in Greenbrobro, North Carolina, where it plans to produce 66 Obartore aircraft a year.

The success of the XB-1 experimental flight is optimistic about the future of the super-vocal aviation. Boom Supersonic hopes to bring the super-loud flights to passengers around the world, and allow them to reach distant destinations in a shorter time. However, there are still many challenges, such as reducing super-noise and ensuring economic feasibility of flights. If Boom Supersonic is able to overcome these challenges, it may revolutionize the commercial aviation and restore the era of super-loud flights.