The Quiet SuperSonic Technology aircraft is America's newest experimental plane. A time-lapse video released by NASA in early ...

Passenger planes currently cannot do supersonic speeds, maxing out at Mach 0.8. What happens when a regular passenger plane reaches these speeds?

NASA’s X-59 – dubbed “Son of Concorde” – is having final safety checks before making a historic maiden flight. The futuristic jet is projected to cruise at Mach 1.5, or around 1595 km/h, potentially ...

American company Boom Supersonic just broke the sound barrier with a civilian plane. What exactly is supersonic travel, and when can we expect it?

NASA’s X-59 quiet supersonic research aircraft is undergoing final safety tests before making its first flight.

CINCINNATI (WKRC) - Ever since the Concorde retired in 2003 after only 27 years of flying, supersonic commercial flights have seemingly been a pipe dream, but new developments in science in technology ...

Boom Supersonic's XB-1 jet went out in style on Monday (Feb. 10). The XB-1 broke the sound barrier three times during its 13th and final test flight, which lifted off Monday from the Mojave Air & ...

Boom Supersonic's XB-1 aircraft set a new speed record during its latest test flight. The Colorado company is working through a flight test program of the XB-1 supersonic demonstrator aircraft, which ...

Some of the biggest hurdles in the path of supersonic civilian air transport are regulations that prohibit the flight of planes over land at the speed of sound and above. These regulations came into ...

Come early next year American space agency NASA will fly, for the first time, an experimental aircraft that could one day bring back civilian supersonic aircraft, and might even allow them to fly at ...

The company’s top-secret research and development presence in Georgia has been growing, and it has its eye on new aircraft to try to design and build.

The only confirmed supersonic air-to-air gun kill is credited to a hotshot U.S. Air Force F-4 Phantom II pilot named Maj. Phil “Hands” Handley. The F-106 performed well, with Mach 2.3 speed, a ...