The United States banned supersonic flights over its land in 1973 due to their ear-splitting sonic booms. Experts are building a plane that should travel at those speeds but create only gentle thumps ...

Aviation is inseparably linked to the chase of speed. Since the first days of the powered flight, engineers and pilots have ...

Some may already be familiar with the sonic boom that accompanies a break to the sound barrier, but when and why would ...

NASA’S “Son of Concorde” jet that could fly from the UK to New York in four hours has smashed through the sound barrier without triggering the usual sonic boom. The experimental ...

Boom Supersonic has launched "The Boom Prize," offering $800,000 ($750k cash + $50k company stock) for the first amateur-built, air-breathing, radio-controlled aircraft to exceed the speed of sound.

California has played a central role in NASA's push to test its X-59 jet and usher in an era of commercial supersonic air ...

NASA is testing the X-59, an experimental plane that was designed to exceed the speed of sound without a loud sonic boom. Credit: NASA / Carla Thomas NASA's X-59 jet has broken the sound barrier for ...

A supersonic jet plane designed to make very little noise took flight for the first time this week, cruising over the southern California desert just after sunrise in what could be the first step ...

Just days after NASA’s experimental X-59 plane flew at supersonic speeds for the first time, the space agency has announced another milestone for the research aircraft. The plane is designed to ...

See more of our coverage in your search results. Add The New York Post on Google Traveling at the speed of sound may actually be on the horizon. NASA’s supersonic aircraft, dubbed “son of Concorde” ...

The Boeing 737 has been around since the 1960s and is now in its fourth generation, but as with other commercial jetliners it takes more than a single number to pin down the 737's top speed. When an ...

The X-1’s fuselage was designed to resemble a .50 caliber bullet—one of the only shapes known to have stable flight at supersonic speeds. The Bell X-1 hangs today from the ceiling of the National Air ...