For more than 50 years, one obstacle has prevented routine supersonic passenger travel over land: the deafening sonic boom.

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

In the latest air travel news, the U.S. is eliminating a decades-old rule that bars new supersonic commercial jets from ...

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 ...

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 has reached 924 mph and 55,000 feet, bringing the agency closer to proving that future supersonic passenger flights can avoid thunderous sonic booms.The Latest Tech News, Delivered to Your ...

NASA is testing the X-59 aircraft with technology for flight that’s faster than the speed of sound that doesn’t create a loud ...

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 ...

Nearly 80 years after Chuck Yeager first broke the sound barrier, new competition aims to unearth the next advancement in high-speed flight.

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

I was an Avionics Sensor Tech at Beale AFB. I worked Side Looking RADAR on the SR-71, so I was always around during air shows. Only once, there was a 80,000 foot Mach 3 flyby. Yes there was a boom but ...