The release of the PS5 version of Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024, alongside Sim Update 4 for PC and Xbox, brought the addition of the Boom XB-1.
If you’re unfamiliar with the aircraft, it’s a supersonic demonstrator created to break the sound barrier without a sonic boom, as the prelude to the return of supersonic airliners to the skies.
While the aircraft was retired in the real world earlier this year, we can now fly it in Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024, forever enshrined in the digital world.
While it’s not an extremely complicated aircraft to fly, it’s certainly challenging, so we took it for a spin and filmed the whole thing. That way, you can learn to fly it with us.
We flew the Boom from Paris Charles de Gaulle Airport to London Heathrow, as a homage to the Concorde. We found it appropriate, considering that the Boom is basically its spiritual successor.
Can we handle the Boom? You can watch the video below to find out. Of course, we’d appreciate it if you could like it and subscribe to our growing YouTube channel, as that’s always extremely helpful. Comments and feedback are also always welcome.
Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024 is currently available for PC, Xbox Series X|S, and PS5. If you’d like to hear more about the simulator, you can watch our latest interview with Head of Microsoft Flight Simulator Jorg Neumann.
If you’d like to read more flight simulation news, you can find plenty in our latest roundup article from yesterday.
If you want to go further back, we have a handy overview video of the major flight simulation news in the past week. You can watch it below. As usual, leaving a like and a comment and subscribing to our growing YouTube channel is extremely helpful.
