US aeronautics agency NASA managed to capture the Boom Supersonic XB-1 research aircraft as it broke the sound barrier during its final flight on 10 February. The flight - the XB-1's second in excess of Mach 1 - was the last in a series of test sorties by the aircraft,

Boom Supersonic, the company building the world's fastest airliner, Overture, partnered with NASA to capture specialized photography

NASA teams on the ground at Mojave Space and Air Port in California used Schlieren photography — a process for photographing fluid flow. It is widely used in aeronautical engineering

Boom Supersonic​ and NASA on Monday released an image of the XB-1 aircraft during its second supersonic flight last month.

A newly released image shows the sound barrier being broken on February 10 as Boom Supersonic’s XB-1, America’s first civil supersonic jet, completed its second supersonic flight.