NASA’s X-59 has reached 924 mph and 55,000 feet, bringing the agency closer to proving that future supersonic passenger ...

The FAA is planning to revise America’s ban on commercial supersonic flight—as long as the “sonic boom” it emits can be ...

More than two decades since the Concorde supersonic airliner last took to the skies, NASA has been flying an experimental aircraft designed to replace loud sonic booms with a quieter thump equivalent ...

A ban on continental supersonic flight has been in place since the 1970s, to ensure nobody endures the noisy sonic booms left in their wake. Aeronautic engineering has come a long way since then, ...

NASA's Quesst mission looks to develop a supersonic aircraft that could one day transform commercial air travel in the United ...

NASA's X-59 has officially gone supersonic. See how this experimental jet aims to turn disruptive sonic booms into a quiet thump.

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 ...

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A long-standing ban on commercial supersonic flights over the United States would be overturned in a new rule proposed by the ...

NASA plans to conduct community overflights beginning this year, flying the X-59 over select American cities to collect public feedback on the “sonic thump.” Still, in some quarters, the dream lives ...

Editor’s Note: To watch a video version of this article, click here. For 53 years, one federal regulation has stood between ...