“You don’t hear a sonic boom from the cockpit because you are leaving the shock waves behind you. You can only feel that she is happy flying at supersonic speed.” Brandenburg is the chief ...

"This reduces risk and ensures we're not learning about problems in the air." NASA's experimental X-59 aircraft continues to make progress toward its first flight with a new successful round of ...

The X-59 "quiet" supersonic jet was designed to break the sound barrier without producing the thunderous sonic booms that typically accompany supersonic flight. And based on the results of the ...

NASA has captured an image of a supersonic civilian jet breaking the sound barrier during a test flight over the Mojave Desert in California in February. The photo, released Monday by the plane ...

Boom Supersonic, the company aiming to create commercial planes that can travel faster than the speed of sound, have successfully tested their XB-1 jet. According to the company and NASA ...

One of the aims of the flight over the Mojave desert was to acquire a Schlieren photograph of the jet at supersonic speed. Schlieren photography involves imaging light which has been refracted by ...

The Boom Supersonic XB-1 – dubbed a "Son of Concorde" – is America's first civil supersonic jet. To hit supersonic speeds, an airplane needs to travel at 768 miles per hour. Boom Supersonic is ...

"This image makes the invisible visible — the first American made civil supersonic jet breaking the sound barrier," Blake ...

“This image makes the invisible visible—the first American made civil supersonic jet breaking the sound barrier,” Scholl said in an update Monday. “Thanks to Geppetto’s exceptional ...

GREENSBORO, N.C. — Renowned Greensboro artist William Mangum won the "Most Original" category in Boom Supersonic’s global design contest for the company’s Overture jet. His design was ...

To hit supersonic speeds, an airplane needs to travel at 768 miles per hour. Boom Supersonic is testing the XB-1 with the hopes of building its Overturne plane, which it's hailing as "the world's ...

A Philippine air force fighter jet carrying two pilots went missing during a night combat assault in support of ground forces who were battling insurgents in a southern province, officials said ...