The unpiloted Aurora lifted off from a conventional runway at the Tāwhaki National Aerospace Centre in New Zealand, ...

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

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

NASA announced a successful test of its X-59 aircraft at U.S. Air Force Plant 42 in Palmdale, Calif., that could lead to supersonic commercial flights.

NASA scientists are advancing supersonic parachutes with advanced sensors to make it more reliable and safer at delivering ...

Boom Supersonic took a step toward its passenger jet ambitions Friday by completing the first flight of its demonstrator plane, called XB-1, at the Mojave Air & Space Port in California. The ...

The test involved supersonic planes from the U.S. Air Force that conducted flights over the Oklahoma City metro area in 1964. For six months, up to eight sonic booms each day were generated by ...

Fresh from the successful completion of its XB-1 flight test campaign earlier this year, TIM ROBINSON FRAeS talks to Boom ...

NASA tests a tiltwing model to advance safer, more versatile air taxis and drones for future urban and regional air mobility.

The test involved supersonic planes from the U.S. Air Force that conducted flights over the Oklahoma City metro area in 1964. For six months, up to eight sonic booms each day were generated by ...

NASA has begun testing a new supersonic aircraft, almost 22 years after Concorde flew its last passenger service. The “quiet” X-59 research aircraft – 99.7 feet long, with a wingspan of 29.7 ...