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Now here’s one for the mantelpiece.
A newly released image shows the sound barrier being broken on February 10 as America’s first civil supersonic jet completed its second flight at speeds exceeding Mach 1.
NASA teams on the ground used Schlieren photography to capture the shock waves around Boom Supersonic’s demonstrator aircraft XB-1 as it pushed through the air.
“This image makes the invisible visible,” said Blake Scholl, founder and CEO of…
