In the 1950s, NASA engineer Robert T. Jones envisioned a wing unlike any before it - one that could pivot mid-flight to ...

Commercial supersonic flight sped closer to returning as the Boom Supersonic XB-1 prototype reached a transonic speed of Mach 0.95 during Test Flight 11 on January 10, 2025, in the skies over the ...

The X-4 Bantam was developed by Northrop in the late 1940s for the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA), the predecessor to NASA, to explore transonic flight. The swept-wing X-4 was ...

Built rapidly over the last 15 years, the Mianyang facility in southwest China includes a newly completed transonic wind ...

When their air moves well above the speed of sound, it passes through the experimental chamber in a smooth, even stream. “Transonic” tunnels (close to the speed of sound) are much more difficult.

Boom Supersonic’s XB-1 technology demonstrator probed deeper into the transonic speed regime during its ninth test flight from Mojave Air & Space Port, California, on Dec. 13, paving the way for ...

Like other modern narrowbody aircraft, the A321XLR flies a typical Mach 0.78, but it offers an incredible range for an aircraft of its class.