NASA's X-59 quiet supersonic research aircraft sits on a ramp at Lockheed Martin Skunk Works in Palmdale, California, during ...

"This reduces risk and ensures we're not learning about problems in the air." NASA's experimental X-59 aircraft continues to make progress toward its first flight with a new successful round of ...

Concorde's retirement in 2003 brought the curtain down on an era of supersonic passenger flights. Now, two decades later, Boom Supersonic is trying to revive that era. It's not just about the speed, ...

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More research and development are needed, but such quiet flights could open up supersonic flight over populated areas and make the Overture jet airliner that Boom plans to manufacture in ...

Spike Aerospace’s Spike S-512 Diplomat concept also aims to be a “quiet” supersonic aircraft with a less disruptive sonic boom. Boom Supersonic’s XB-1 supersonic demonstrator aircraft ...

It's a momentous occasion for aviation, as the research aircraft may prove once and for all that supersonic civilian flight over land is not only possible, but it will also be quiet enough as to ...

During its historic first supersonic flight on January 28, 2025, Boom's demonstrator aircraft, XB-1, broke the sound barrier three times without generating a sonic boom that reached the ground, ...

The X-59 "quiet" supersonic jet was designed to break the sound barrier without producing the thunderous sonic booms that typically accompany supersonic flight. And based on the results of the ...

Spike Aerospace’s Spike S-512 Diplomat concept also aims to be a “quiet” supersonic aircraft with a less disruptive sonic boom. Boom Supersonic doesn’t plan to fly supersonically over land. Its plan ...