One of the many ongoing missions of the US government's National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) is to make ...

The Atlanta-based company is on a mission to develop commercial passenger aircrafts that move at hypersonic speeds.

There is every indication that supersonic planes are on their way back, more than two decades after Concorde last took to the ...

CHINA has unveiled its latest supersonic drone which reportedly could fly passengers at twice the speed of Concorde. The superfast aircraft, dubbed “Monkey King”, aims to reach a top ...

In a press release, Boom emphasizes that supersonic aircraft have historically "been the work of nation states, developed by ...

NASA says the X59 supersonic jet will produce a sonic thump instead of a sonic boom, which might help lower it's noise.

The last time anyone other than a fighter pilot went supersonic was 20 years ago. Today, you can only visit a Concorde in a ...

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When planes exceed Mach 1 (the speed of sound, or about 767 miles per hour—1,234 kilometers/hour for those using the metric ...

Being a test pilot isn’t always the healthiest business in the world. [In the 1950s, test pilots were being killed at the ...

Supersonic commercial air travel is becoming feasible as Boom Supersonic's XB-1 successfully broke the sound barrier.