When the experimental XB-1 aircraft broke the sound barrier three times during its first supersonic flight on 28 January, it did not produce a sonic boom audible from the ground, according to US ...
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 ...
Boom Supersonic has completed its XB-1 flight test program at Mojave Air and Space Port in California, closing out a campaign that included two supersonic runs during which the company says its ground ...
NASA's X-59 Quiet SuperSonic Technology (QueSST) experimental supersonic aircraft took to the skies for the first time on October 28, 2025 from Lockheed Martin's famously secret Skunk Works at the US ...
A long-standing ban on commercial supersonic flights over the United States would be overturned in a new rule proposed by the ...