NASA’s Quesst Mission aims to develop a new supersonic jet that produces quiet sonic booms, allowing for faster-than-sound ...

NASA just wrapped engine performance tests on its X-59 research aircraft, which the space agency hopes will prove a means of mitigating supersonic ... exceed Mach 1 (the speed of sound, or about ...

Similar to a delta wing, the Soviet-developed Tu-144 incorporated special retractable foreplanes (canards) to improve lift ...

Aviation company Boom Supersonic turned to NASA to visualize the flow of air around its supersonic XB-1 aircraft as it tries ...

Supersonic test plane XB-1 smashed its top speed record Tuesday ... the technical knowhow for their future supersonic passenger jet, Overture: a Mach 1.7 craft slated for testing in 2026.

But while the successful test flight of XB-1 shows that supersonic flight without sonic booms is technically feasible, the ...

A newly released image shows the sound barrier being broken on February 10 as Boom Supersonic’s XB-1, America’s first civil ...

NASA’s X-59 supersonic jet has successfully passed electromagnetic testing, confirming its systems won’t interfere with one ...

The XB-1's flight, livestreamed from the Mojave Air & Space Port in California, made it the first civil supersonic jet made in the ... feet and accelerating to speed Mach 1.122, or about 750 ...

Virgin Galactic’s private jet represents a very bold step toward making supersonic travel a reality for an elite few. Unlike ...

The data discovered might lead the way for supersonic commercial flights without sonic booms, the company said in the news ...

The test flight took place in the same Mojave Desert area in California where Charles "Chuck" Yeager first broke the sound ...