The first aircraft to break the sound barrier wasn't powered by jet engines. Instead, it was more like a rocket with wings and a tail. In 1947, an experimental airplane called the Bell X-1 was taxied ...

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 last week of October, NASA successfully tested its first quiet supersonic jet in a short, low-speed flight over the California desert. The purpose of the test was not to review speed, but to check ...

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 ...

Supersonic flight refers to aircraft travelling faster than the speed of sound, approximately Mach one at sea level, or around 1,236km/h.

The X-59 quiet supersonic jet, built for NASA by Lockheed Martin (NYSE:LMT), successfully completed its first test flight in California on Tuesday, paving the way for faster commercial air travel. The ...

Owning an aircraft of any sort is a luxury reserved for a very small club. Owning one of the fastest machines on the market, however, is a flex on an entirely different level. Ever since Chuck ...

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 ...

Concorde made history and continues to influence the industry, even though it was a government-funded enterprise.

Boom Supersonic’s quest to revive supersonic commercial aircraft flight also received a historic and unexpected boost from an ...

A new supersonic business jet that could cut the flight time from Dubai to New York to just over three hours was launched as a concept at the Paris Airshow today. Richard Lugg - an avowed Concode fan ...