For decades, supersonic flights over the continental United States have been banned by regulators due to the sonic booms ...

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

Supersonic flights over land may soon be possible in the US to shorten flight times. The FAA is creating the regulatory basis for this.

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

Proposed interim standards mark the agency's first major step to undo the decades-old ban.

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, ...

A plane built by Nasa has broken the sound barrier without producing a sonic boom, bringing civilian supersonic flights a ...

The race to bring back supersonic passenger travel is gathering pace as regulators reconsider decades-old restrictions and aerospace companies develop quieter, more efficient aircraft. With the FAA ...

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 ...

NASA’s X-59 is changing supersonic travel. Can it turn the explosive sonic boom into a quiet "thump" to bring back fast flight?

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 ...

For decades, supersonic flights over the continental United States have been banned by regulators due to the sonic booms produced by the aircraft. However, it sounds like that could soon be changing.