The FAA proposed a new rule that would unwind the current ban against supersonic flight over U.S. soil on Tuesday, replacing it instead with limits on the strength of sonic booms. The original rule ...

Ready that gin and tonic — because once again we’re going supersonic - A quarter of a century after concorde lucas chancellor ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. NASA’s experimental X-59 plane in flight on June 5, 2026, the first time the aircraft has reached supersonic speeds. NASA's ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Just days after NASA's experimental X-59 plane flew at supersonic speeds for the first time, the space agency has announced ...

The U.S. Air Force is the entity responsible for assigning X-number designations to important experimental aircraft and rockets that dates back to 1947. The new experimental supersonic X-plane was ...

China is preparing to test an experimental supersonic passenger aircraft, which can travel at twice the speed of sound with a significantly reduced sonic boom. The TMS-10 demonstrator plane has ...

Humankind is always on a quest for speed: You can ride the fastest rollercoaster in the world, the Formula Rossa, at Ferrari World in Abu Dhabi, and the fastest land speed record was achieved in 1997 ...

Air travel could once again move at the speed of sound. On Friday, while we were counting down the hours until the weekend, NASA took to the skies with its supersonic plane, the X-59, towards its ...

More than two decades since the Concorde supersonic airliner last took to the skies, NASA has been flying an experimental aircraft designed to replace loud sonic booms with a quieter thump equivalent ...

A sonic boom heard across Washington, D.C., on Sunday was the result of a fighter jet investigating an aircraft in a restricted area, according to U.S. officials. An unresponsive business Cessna 560 ...