NASA's X-59 quiet supersonic research aircraft is preparing for some of its most significant flights yet. The X-plane is about to begin a new block of test flights that will include its first time ...

NASA and Lockheed Martin’s experimental X-59 aircraft has taken to the skies for the first time, making history as the first supersonic aircraft designed to make a soft "thump" instead of thunderous ...

Boom Supersonic's XB-1 test aircraft successfully completed its seventh subsonic flight, setting new speed and altitude records, and is on track for supersonic flight tests by year-end. The XB-1 is a ...

Boom Supersonic aims to reintroduce supersonic passenger flight with its Overture airliner, having successfully demonstrated "boomless cruise" with its XB-1 demonstrator to mitigate sonic boom issues.

NASA is still working on X-59 – sometimes also known as Quesst, because that’s the name of the mission – potentially the first commercially viable supersonic aircraft since Concorde. We’re still a ...

Each time one flies above Mach 1 is special. Most commercial pilots have never done it. Our writer is not a pilot, but he’s flown supersonic seven separate times. As an adventure journalist, I've been ...

The aerospace company put its technology to the test today, breaking the sound barrier and reviving the dream of supersonic commercial flight. Reading time 2 minutes The aerospace company Boom ...

(CNN) — On January 21, 1976 a teenage John Tye was among crowds of onlookers clinging to a chain link fence, cheering as the first commercial British Airways Concorde flight departed from London’s ...

No, fair citizens of Hawaii, the US government hasn't increased the level of psychoactive drugs in your water supply: That really is a flying saucer that just flew past your window at three times the ...