The last week of October, NASA successfully tested its first quiet supersonic jet in a short, low-speed flight over the California desert. The purpose of the test was not to review speed, but to check ...

The company’s plan to revive supersonic air travel has been backed by the Trump administration via efforts to ease ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A new supersonic plane could herald flights over land that are less intrusive for the communities below their flight paths. Jason ...

The XB-1 demonstrator broke the sound barrier without a sonic boom reaching the ground, and the US is preparing to lift a ...

NASA's X-59 supersonic jet is designed to surpass the speed of sound without producing sonic booms. Here's the latest on testing.

The airline most likely to put Boom Supersonic’s Overture into passenger service now says the jet will miss its stated 2029 goal. United Airlines CEO Scott Kirby was direct about the schedule: “It’s ...

Supersonic commercial air travel could be on the horizon once again, and NASA is one step closer to making it a reality. The U.S. space agency's experimental X-59 jet recently traveled faster than the ...

More than two decades since the Concorde supersonic airliner last took to the skies, NASA has been flying an experimental aircraft designed to replace loud sonic booms with a quieter thump equivalent ...

The existence of the NBA’s Oklahoma City Thunder offers an interesting bit of irony, as least to my mind. Originally the Seattle SuperSonics, a name inspired by Boeing’s supersonic transport project a ...

For decades, supersonic flights over the continental United States have been banned by regulators due to the sonic booms produced by the aircraft. However, it sounds like that could soon be changing.

Boom Supersonic's experimental XB-1 jet (shown in a Schlieren photograph) has flown at supersonic speeds on multiple outings. The company hopes to take what it learns from XB-1 to produce a full-size ...

Bombardier's CEO and chief engineer said that supersonic flight is too expensive for a niche market, citing the challenges ...