For over half a century, the skies above America have been stuck in the slow lane. Since 1973, when the FAA banned civilian ...

President Trump signed executive orders to lift the ban on supersonic air travel and facilitate electric air taxis, directing the FAA to establish noise standards for supersonic aircraft and loosen ...

Commercial supersonic flight over the United States was banned in 1973 in response to complaints regarding the boom produced by aircraft flying faster than Mach 1. These sonic booms have been known to ...

EVANSVILLE, Ind. (WFIE) -Storms have moved out and we will enjoy sunny and cooler conditions to finish the work week. Daily highs will rise into the lower 70s and lows will fall into the lower 50s ...

Not long is left now until American space agency NASA sends a brand-new research aircraft called X-59 into the sky. Part of the Quiet Supersonic Technology (QueSST) program, it's a piece of ...

NASA’s quiet supersonic research aircraft, the X-59 aircraft, has completed an essential round of testing without ever leaving the ground These evaluations mark a key milestone in the agency’s efforts ...

NASA's experimental X-59 aircraft continues to make progress toward its first flight with a new successful round of testing. The X-59 "quiet" supersonic jet was designed to break the sound barrier ...

The American space agency plans to have a supersonic aircraft called X ... under flight corridors. The X-59 is the centerpiece of a research program called Quiet Supersonic Technology (QueSST).

NASA and Lockheed Martin successfully completed engine performance tests on the X-59, a research aircraft designed to mitigate the loud sonic booms produced by supersonic flight. The tests, which ran ...