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

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

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, ...

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

(CNN) — Last week, American company Boom Supersonic flew faster than the speed of sound with its XB-1 supersonic demonstrator aircraft. It’s now the first piloted non-military aircraft to break the ...

We’ll start to miss this sort of thing soon. NASA partnered with Boom Supersonic to capture the invisible; the supersonic shockwave of Boom’s XB-1 aircraft breaking the sound barrier. "This image ...

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

Shock waves arise when a disturbance travels through a medium at speeds exceeding the local speed of sound, causing abrupt changes in pressure, temperature and density. In supersonic flows, such waves ...