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Boom has, however, already achieved civil supersonic flight in US airspace, with the delta-winged XB-1 research aircraft created to support development of Overture.

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But Boom Technology has been working on a jet that has no audible sonic boom. The firm managed to make its XB-1 test jet fly faster than the speed of sound for the first time in January this year.

A flight monitor shows Boom Supersonic's XB-1 test plane hitting Mach 1.1 on Jan. 28, when it broke the sound barrier for the first time on its 12th test flight. Tristan Brandenburg, Boom's chief ...

Boom’s supersonic data points from Jan. 28 and Feb. 10 test flights at Mojave Air and Space Port in California demonstrated that the sonic booms were not felt on the ground.

Boom Supersonic did multiple test flights earlier in the year with their XB-1 jet, which broke the sound barrier without creating an audible boom.