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XB-1 Supersonic Prototype Makes Second Flight

Handout photo shows Boom Supersonic’s XB-1 demonstrator aircraft completing his second test flight on August 26, 2024 in Mojave Air and Spaceport, California, USA. The flight, led by Chief Test Pilot Tristan “Geppetto” Brandenburg, focused on critical evaluations of the aircraft’s systems. This included testing the retraction and extension of the landing gear, as well as assessing a digital stability augmentation system known as a roll damper to enhance in-flight stability. Additionally, tufting, a technique used to visualize airflow, was applied to the right wing to ensure aerodynamic performance. The XB-1 took to the skies for the first time on March 22, 2024, safely achieving an altitude of 7,120 feet (2,100 meters) and speeds up to 238 knots (273 mph). The XB-1 serves as a demonstrator for Boom’s upcoming Overture airliner. The supersonic passenger jet is poised to seat between 64 and 80 passengers and fly up to 4,250 nautical miles (7,867 kilometers) at a cruising speed of Mach 1.7. The production of the

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XB-1 Supersonic Prototype Makes Second Flight

Handout photo shows Boom Supersonic’s XB-1 demonstrator aircraft completing his second test flight on August 26, 2024 in Mojave Air and Spaceport, California, USA. The flight, led by Chief Test Pilot Tristan “Geppetto” Brandenburg, focused on critical evaluations of the aircraft’s systems. This included testing the retraction and extension of the landing gear, as well as assessing a digital stability augmentation system known as a roll damper to enhance in-flight stability. Additionally, tufting, a technique used to visualize airflow, was applied to the right wing to ensure aerodynamic performance. The XB-1 took to the skies for the first time on March 22, 2024, safely achieving an altitude of 7,120 feet (2,100 meters) and speeds up to 238 knots (273 mph). The XB-1 serves as a demonstrator for Boom’s upcoming Overture airliner. The supersonic passenger jet is poised to seat between 64 and 80 passengers and fly up to 4,250 nautical miles (7,867 kilometers) at a cruising speed of Mach 1.7. The production of the

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XB-1 Supersonic Prototype Makes Second Flight

Handout photo shows Boom Supersonic’s XB-1 demonstrator aircraft completing his second test flight on August 26, 2024 in Mojave Air and Spaceport, California, USA. The flight, led by Chief Test Pilot Tristan “Geppetto” Brandenburg, focused on critical evaluations of the aircraft’s systems. This included testing the retraction and extension of the landing gear, as well as assessing a digital stability augmentation system known as a roll damper to enhance in-flight stability. Additionally, tufting, a technique used to visualize airflow, was applied to the right wing to ensure aerodynamic performance. The XB-1 took to the skies for the first time on March 22, 2024, safely achieving an altitude of 7,120 feet (2,100 meters) and speeds up to 238 knots (273 mph). The XB-1 serves as a demonstrator for Boom’s upcoming Overture airliner. The supersonic passenger jet is poised to seat between 64 and 80 passengers and fly up to 4,250 nautical miles (7,867 kilometers) at a cruising speed of Mach 1.7. The production of the

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XB-1 Supersonic Prototype Makes Second Flight

Handout photo shows Boom Supersonic’s XB-1 demonstrator aircraft completing his second test flight on August 26, 2024 in Mojave Air and Spaceport, California, USA. The flight, led by Chief Test Pilot Tristan “Geppetto” Brandenburg, focused on critical evaluations of the aircraft’s systems. This included testing the retraction and extension of the landing gear, as well as assessing a digital stability augmentation system known as a roll damper to enhance in-flight stability. Additionally, tufting, a technique used to visualize airflow, was applied to the right wing to ensure aerodynamic performance. The XB-1 took to the skies for the first time on March 22, 2024, safely achieving an altitude of 7,120 feet (2,100 meters) and speeds up to 238 knots (273 mph). The XB-1 serves as a demonstrator for Boom’s upcoming Overture airliner. The supersonic passenger jet is poised to seat between 64 and 80 passengers and fly up to 4,250 nautical miles (7,867 kilometers) at a cruising speed of Mach 1.7. The production of the

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XB-1 Supersonic Prototype Makes Second Flight

Handout photo shows Boom Supersonic’s XB-1 demonstrator aircraft completing his second test flight on August 26, 2024 in Mojave Air and Spaceport, California, USA. The flight, led by Chief Test Pilot Tristan “Geppetto” Brandenburg, focused on critical evaluations of the aircraft’s systems. This included testing the retraction and extension of the landing gear, as well as assessing a digital stability augmentation system known as a roll damper to enhance in-flight stability. Additionally, tufting, a technique used to visualize airflow, was applied to the right wing to ensure aerodynamic performance. The XB-1 took to the skies for the first time on March 22, 2024, safely achieving an altitude of 7,120 feet (2,100 meters) and speeds up to 238 knots (273 mph). The XB-1 serves as a demonstrator for Boom’s upcoming Overture airliner. The supersonic passenger jet is poised to seat between 64 and 80 passengers and fly up to 4,250 nautical miles (7,867 kilometers) at a cruising speed of Mach 1.7. The production of the

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XB-1 Supersonic Prototype Makes Second Flight

Handout photo shows Boom Supersonic’s XB-1 demonstrator aircraft completing his second test flight on August 26, 2024 in Mojave Air and Spaceport, California, USA. The flight, led by Chief Test Pilot Tristan “Geppetto” Brandenburg, focused on critical evaluations of the aircraft’s systems. This included testing the retraction and extension of the landing gear, as well as assessing a digital stability augmentation system known as a roll damper to enhance in-flight stability. Additionally, tufting, a technique used to visualize airflow, was applied to the right wing to ensure aerodynamic performance. The XB-1 took to the skies for the first time on March 22, 2024, safely achieving an altitude of 7,120 feet (2,100 meters) and speeds up to 238 knots (273 mph). The XB-1 serves as a demonstrator for Boom’s upcoming Overture airliner. The supersonic passenger jet is poised to seat between 64 and 80 passengers and fly up to 4,250 nautical miles (7,867 kilometers) at a cruising speed of Mach 1.7. The production of the

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Asahi Shimbun president to resign over retraction of news stories

TOKYO, Japan - Photo shows Tadakazu Kimura, president of the Asahi Shimbun newspaper. The Asahi said Nov. 14, 2014, that Kimura will resign as of Dec. 5 to take responsibility for its retraction of a couple of articles.

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Japan asks for partial retraction of U.N. report on wartime brothels

TOKYO, Japan - Undated file photo of Radhika Coomaraswamy, a Sri Lankan lawyer who compiled a United Nations report on "comfort women" in 1996. Coomaraswamy has rejected the Japanese government's request to retract part of the report's contents that Tokyo sees as false, the top government spokesman said on Oct. 16, 2014.

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Group opposing collective self-defense meets press

TOKYO, Japan - Former Cabinet Legislation Bureau chief Masasuke Omori (2nd from R) and other members of a group opposing the policy of Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's government to allow Japan to exercise the right to collective self-defense meets the press in Tokyo on Sept. 29, 2014, after submitting a report to the administration demanding retraction of the policy.

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Japan voices regret over U.S. official's alleged comments

NAHA, Japan - The Okinawa prefectural assembly unanimously adopts a resolution in Naha on March 8, 2011, seeking a retraction and apology over alleged comments by Kevin Maher, head of the Japanese affairs office at the U.S. State Department, disparaging the people of Okinawa.

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Nago seeks retraction of Futenma transfer accord

NAHA, Japan - The Nago city assembly in Okinawa Prefecture adopts a resolution on Oct. 15, 2010, calling on the Japanese and U.S. governments to rescind their joint statement to relocate the U.S. Marine Corps' Futenma Air Station to the city.

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Nago seeks retraction of Futenma transfer accord

NAHA, Japan - Nago Mayor Susumu Inamine answers reporters' questions after the assembly of the city in Okinawa Prefecture adopted a resolution on Oct. 15, 2010, calling on the Japanese and U.S. governments to rescind their joint statement to relocate the U.S. Marine Corps' Futenma Air Station to the city.

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Court accepts murder confession as evidence despite retraction

Photo taken in June 2014 shows Takuya Katsumata, who has been on trial over the 2005 murder of a 7-year-old girl in the northeastern Japanese prefecture of Tochigi. The Utsunomiya District Court accepted investigation records on March 18, 2016, that shows Katsumata, 33, admitting to the murder of the girl as evidence, despite the defendant's not-guilty plea and claim that he was pressured into making the confession. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Campaigners deliver petition demanding security bills be retracted

Reportage writer Satoshi Kamata (center L) and commentator Makoto Sataka (center R) join others in preparing to deliver over 1.65 million signatures collected from the public nationwide to the Japanese parliament in Tokyo on June 29, 2015, demanding the retraction of a controversial set of national security bills. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Constitutional law scholars meet press at Diet building

Yoichi Higuchi (C), a professor emeritus at the University of Tokyo, speaks in a press conference by the Save Constitutional Democracy Japan group at the Diet building in Tokyo on June 24, 2015, with Setsu Kobayashi (L), a professor emeritus at Keio University, and Yasuo Hasebe, a professor at Waseda University, sitting next to him. The group of constitutional law and other scholars demanded a retraction of security bills that they claimed are unconstitutional. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Nago seeks retraction of Futenma transfer accord

NAHA, Japan - The Nago city assembly in Okinawa Prefecture adopts a resolution on Oct. 15, 2010, calling on the Japanese and U.S. governments to rescind their joint statement to relocate the U.S. Marine Corps' Futenma Air Station to the city. (Kyodo)

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Nago seeks retraction of Futenma transfer accord

NAHA, Japan - Nago Mayor Susumu Inamine answers reporters' questions after the assembly of the city in Okinawa Prefecture adopted a resolution on Oct. 15, 2010, calling on the Japanese and U.S. governments to rescind their joint statement to relocate the U.S. Marine Corps' Futenma Air Station to the city. (Kyodo)

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Japan voices regret over U.S. official's alleged comments

NAHA, Japan - The Okinawa prefectural assembly unanimously adopts a resolution in Naha on March 8, 2011, seeking a retraction and apology over alleged comments by Kevin Maher, head of the Japanese affairs office at the U.S. State Department, disparaging the people of Okinawa. (Kyodo)

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Asahi chief to resign over retraction of news stories

TOKYO, Japan - Photo shows Masataka Watanabe, an Asahi Shimbun director, who will assume the presidency of the major Japanese daily after President Tadakazu Kimura resigns on Dec. 5, 2014, to take responsibility for the paper's retraction of some articles. (Kyodo)

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Asahi Shimbun president to resign over retraction of news stories

TOKYO, Japan - Photo shows Tadakazu Kimura, president of the Asahi Shimbun newspaper. The Asahi said Nov. 14, 2014, that Kimura will resign as of Dec. 5 to take responsibility for its retraction of a couple of articles. (Kyodo)

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Japan asks for partial retraction of U.N. report on wartime brothels

TOKYO, Japan - Undated file photo of Radhika Coomaraswamy, a Sri Lankan lawyer who compiled a United Nations report on "comfort women" in 1996. Coomaraswamy has rejected the Japanese government's request to retract part of the report's contents that Tokyo sees as false, the top government spokesman said on Oct. 16, 2014. (Kyodo)

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Group opposing collective self-defense meets press

TOKYO, Japan - Former Cabinet Legislation Bureau chief Masasuke Omori (2nd from R) and other members of a group opposing the policy of Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's government to allow Japan to exercise the right to collective self-defense meets the press in Tokyo on Sept. 29, 2014, after submitting a report to the administration demanding retraction of the policy. (Kyodo)