Stretching back to WWII, the history of Russian jet development is intertwined with that of the United States. Here are the ...

M-25 was to be the first and only aircraft designed to use the sonic boom to devastate enemy troops in an open terrain battlefield. But was this the real background of the story and why did the ...

More than two decades after Europe’s failed attempt at a supersonic airliner, the USA is on track to make it work. View on ...

If NASA’s bet on its newest X-plane pays off, the long-nosed aircraft could revolutionize commercial aviation. That is, if ...

The Boom XB-1 single-seat supersonic aircraft developed by US civil aircraft ... the speed is to be reduced to 0.94 Mach to avoid the loud sonic boom when breaking the sound barrier.

A significant challenge in this field is the sonic boom, a loud noise produced when an aircraft exceeds the speed of sound. Recent research has focused on innovative design strategies and ...

Boom Supersonic's XB-1 demonstrator plane just went supersonic in the skies over California's Mojave Desert, making it the first civil aircraft to break the sound barrier. The American startup's ...

For example, NASA's joint project with Lockheed Martin, the X-59 aircraft, allegedly reduces the infamous sonic boom to a "sonic thump," according to the organization. Although the Concorde was ...

The test flight for the Boom Supersonic XB-1, a prototype aircraft that many tout as the ... Flight experts say in ideal conditions, a sonic boom can be heard up to 30 miles away from the source.

The single-seat, three-engine jet is the first independently developed plane to exceed Mach 1 in level flight.