A SUPERSONIC jet that could fly from London to New York in under four hours is preparing for take-off. NASA’s X-59 – dubbed ...

Boom Supersonic, a company working to develop passenger aircraft capable of traveling faster than the speed of sound, announced that its planes will be able to fly at supersonic speeds without the ...

Passenger planes currently cannot do supersonic speeds, maxing out at Mach 0.8. However, one pioneer in the world of aviation ...

NASA’s X-59 quiet supersonic research aircraft is undergoing final safety tests before making its first flight.

Boom has been given permission to go supersonic by the US FAA. The first-ever Special Flight Authorization (SFA) to Exceed Mach means the company's XB-1 prototype will be allowed to break the sound ...

Chinese "Space Transportation" company, Lingkong Tianxing Technology, has successfully tested its new JinDou400, also known as JinDouyun, ramjet detonation engine nearly twice the altitude of ...

Boom Supersonic aims to revive supersonic passenger flight with its Overture airliner, focusing on "boomless cruise" to mitigate the sonic boom issue that grounded Concorde. Overture's design ...

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Revival of supersonic air travel is a subject which has largely been relegated to ‘silly season’ status in the two decades since withdrawal of the BAC-Aerospatiale Concorde fleet. While no supersonic ...

Let's begin with a major boost the flying public received in 1976, albeit a privilege enjoyed by a tiny fraction of fortunate flyers: the first commercial regular service on an SST (supersonic ...