China say the C949 could reduce Britain to New York journey time from the usual seven hours to less than half that, making ...

Late last week, American company Boom Supersonic flew faster than the speed of sound with its XB-1 supersonic demonstrator ...

Virgin Galactic high-speed jet concept In 2020, Virgin Galactic unveiled a Mach 3 aircraft design for high-speed air travel. The design parameters of the supersonic aircraft include a Mach 3 ...

China is making bold moves in the global race for supersonic travel. Comac, the country’s state-owned aircraft manufacturer, has revealed concept designs for ...

An unpiloted spaceplane took off from a runway, soared to 67,000 ft at Mach 1.03, and tested rapid detection tech for ...

Decades of computational advances, wind-tunnel tests, and modified jet experiments convinced NASA that boom intensity could be shaped. Enter the X -59 QueSST (Quiet Supersonic Technology).

Here’s how it works. A specialized photograph known as a Schlieren image produced during a test flight of Boom Supersonic XB-1 jet on Feb. 10, 2025. (Image credit: NASA/Boom Supersonic) ...

Boom Supersonic founder and CEO Blake Scholl poses with a model of the XB-1, the world’s first independently developed supersonic jet aircraft, during the Farnborough International Airshow 2024 ...

NASA's Quesst Mission is developing a supersonic jet that produces quiet sonic booms, traveling faster than the speed of sound. The X-59 has a unique design that eliminates excess curves and ...

A newly released image shows the sound barrier being broken on February 10 as Boom Supersonic’s XB-1, America’s first civil supersonic jet, completed its second supersonic flight.

When the Concorde was grounded in 2003, done in by strained economics and a fiery crash on a Paris runway, it appeared to be the end of the line for supersonic travel. Nothing emerged to replace it.

Supersonic jet mixing and control is an area of considerable importance in both fundamental fluid dynamics and practical engineering applications, ranging from propulsion systems to advanced flow ...