NASA’s experimental X-59 has finally traded the hangar for the sky, marking a historic first flight that could rewrite the ...

I went on board two Concordes, including the first prototype, at Paris's air and space museum. Concorde, retired in 2003 due to costs and a crash, flew at more than twice the speed of sound. Boom ...

For decades, flying faster than the speed of sound has meant speeding across the skies in an aircraft that creates a powerful sonic boom -- a huge noise that travels down to the ground below like a ...

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 ...

We take a look back at the iconic Concorde airliner, and explore whether there's a viable future for supersonic aviation.

A new "quiet" supersonic X-59 jet designed to revolutionize air travel successfully completed its first test flight, Lockheed Martin announced this week. The sleek, needle-point aircraft built for ...

The future of high speed travel did not arrive with a deafening crack over the ocean, but with a controlled, almost modest flight over the California desert. A slender experimental jet, built not to ...

Passengers are one step closer to flying supersonic for the first time since Concorde’s retirement after Nasa took its “sonic thump” plane for its first test flight. The X-59 took off on its maiden ...

Lockheed Martin Skunk Works is catching up with Boom Supersonic by flying its X-59 experimental quiet supersonic aircraft for the first time. Boom has not only flown its test aircraft, but achieved ...

Plane could help pave way for faster commercial air travel Aircraft built to break sound barrier with sonic 'thump' Designed to cruise at Mach 1.4 at altitude of 55,000 feet First test flight was ...

The boom-less supersonic jet race is on, following Boom Supersonic’s completion of testing earlier this year of its XB-1 test aircraft. The first successful U.S. commercial supersonic jet proved that ...