When a passenger aircraft crosses Mach 1, it's moving faster than sound. That shift creates shock waves around the airframe. Drag increases sharply, engines must burn far more fuel, and the familiar ...

Supersonic passenger jets once promised a world where crossing oceans felt as quick as a long lunch break, yet today the ...

I know - I've spent enough time in the one at Duxford. I'm allowed to give my opinion that it was cramped. A plane that lost large aounts of development and construction money because it could not be ...

Commercial supersonic travel just got one step closer to reality, as Lockheed Martin has just made its first successful flight with the X-59 prototype for NASA's Quiet Supersonic Technology (QueSST) ...

PALMDALE, California >> NASA’s X-59 supersonic-but-quiet jet soared over the Southern California desert on Tuesday in the first test flight of an experimental aircraft designed to break the sound ...

NASA’s sleek and quiet supersonic jet — which is built to reach speeds of up to 925 mph without producing a loud sonic boom— soared across the California desert in its first test flight on Tuesday, ...

Nearly a decade after NASA partnered with Lockheed Martin to build the X-59, the supersonic jet has completed its first flight in California, according to a press release spotted by Gizmodo. The X-59 ...

AI is turning to supersonic jet engines to power its sprawling data centers. We talked to the company making these engines to learn about the symbiotic relationship between supersonic travel and AI.

The NFL is looking toward supersonic flight in order to help their European dreams come true. NFL executives have been monitoring the progress that aerospace companies such as Boom Supersonic and ...