For most travelers, the loud, window-rattling boom of a supersonic jet is something you hear about in documentaries rather than experience in real life. Public noise restrictions have kept passenger ...

Today, many military aircraft can break the sound barrier to enter supersonic flight. Certain commercial models can as well, including the Concorde, which is famous for its record-breaking flights. As ...

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 company ...

Boom Supersonic made history when its XB-1 prototype jet broke the sound barrier for the first time. Chief test pilot Tristan “Geppetto” Brandenburg took off today (January 28th 2025) in the company’s ...

NASA's new supersonic jet, the X-59, is set to take its first flight this week. The jet, created in collaboration with Lockheed Martin, is designed to travel faster than the speed of sound while ...

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Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Aviation history was just very quietly made in the skies of Southern California. NASA’s X-59 supersonic jet completed its first ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — A wayward and unresponsive business plane that flew over the nation’s capital Sunday afternoon caused the military to scramble a fighter jet before the plane crashed in Virginia, ...

It's been a long time coming, but the first flight of the X-59 experimental aircraft, made by NASA and Lockheed Martin Skunk Works as a means to prove that quiet supersonic flight is possible, is more ...

This browser does not support the Video element. A fighter jet that was trying to intercept an unresponsive small plane that flew over D.C. Sunday triggered report of a loud boom that was heard across ...