NASA's recently-retired SOFIA airborne observatory aircraft, the "flying telescope," also called Plant 42 home. The agency's ...

A new executive order repeals a 52-year-old ban on commercial supersonic flights, while new technology can make supersonic ...

The Federal Aviation Administration is investigating a near miss over North Dakota involving a SkyWest jet operating as a Delta Connection flight and a U.S. Air Force B-52 bomber.

The mighty MiG-21, after serving the air force for 62 years, will retire and get replaced by the newer Tejas fighter jets. An ...

Concorde crash near Paris; Portuguese military bids for power; Massacre in Korea by US troops; Britain defines Palestinian ...

Extreme athlete Felix Baumgartner, the first skydiver to fall faster than the speed of sound during a 24-mile leap through ...

Felix Baumgartner, the skydiver who broke the sound barrier in a record-setting 2012 jump, died in a paragliding crash in ...

“Our community is deeply affected by the tragic disappearance of Felix Baumgartner, a figure of global prominence, a symbol of courage and passion for extreme flight,” the mayor ... dangerous flat ...

Breakfast in New York, midmorning snack in London. Taxi tests are underway on a highly anticipated supersonic plane designed to quietly break the sound barrier — and slash flight time between ...

Sheryka, the company's chief flight test engineer, and Tristan Brandenburg, its chief test pilot, recently joined The Fighter Pilot Podcast to discuss the XB-1 Supersonic demonstrator program.

NASA's X-59 quiet supersonic aircraft has begun low-speed taxi tests, a final step before its first flight later this year. The X-59 is designed to reduce sonic booms to a minimal level, aiming to ...