NASA is testing the X-59, an experimental plane that was designed to exceed the speed of sound without a loud sonic boom.

As the aircraft broke the sound barrier, however, its quiet thump was not heard. A NASA F-15 chase plane flew nearby to ...

NASA's experimental X-59 aircraft marked a major milestone Friday, June 5, when it flew faster than the speed of sound for ...

NASA’s X-59 QueSST flew faster than the speed of sound for the first time, expanding into the supersonic portion of its ...

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NASA’s X-59 quiet supersonic research aircraft flies above mountains near NASA’s Armstrong Flight Research Center in Edwards, California, on Tuesday, May 12. Credit: NASA/Jim Ross For seven decades, ...

NASA’s X-59 quiet supersonic research aircraft has flown faster than the speed of sound for the first time, marking a key step in the agency’s effort to usher in an era of civil supersonic flight over ...

There might come a time, soon enough, when commercial supersonic flight over land could be possible all over the world. If that happens, history will probably remember the X-59 experimental aircraft ...

At Mach 0.95, the Global 8000 is running at the absolute ceiling of subsonic production aviation, and Bombardier formalized ...

The Aerion AS2 was designed as a supersonic business jet that would avoid one of the biggest obstacles in civil supersonic ...

After the NFL schedule came out in 2024, NFL exec Mike North said the league felt “the Jets kind of owe us one.” He was referring to the lost 2023 season when the league put the Jets in primetime five ...

A little more than three years since NASA’s Ingenuity helicopter ended its pioneering mission at Mars, engineers at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in California are designing next-generation Martian ...