Born out of Cold War desperation, the XF-84H Thunderscreech was a radical experiment in aircraft propulsion. Aiming to combine the climb rate of a propeller plane with the speed of a jet, engineers ...

LOS ANGELES - Boom Supersonic is setting out to redefine commercial travel by bringing supersonic speed to flights. According to the company, founded in 2014 by Blake Scholl, its vision is to bring ...

A new "quiet" supersonic X-59 jet designed to revolutionize air travel successfully completed its first test flight, Lockheed Martin announced this week. The sleek, needle-point aircraft built for ...

A render of the X-59 quiet supersonic airplane flying above the desert. - Lockheed Martin For decades, flying faster than the speed of sound has meant speeding across the skies in an aircraft that ...

A "son of Concorde" that could fly from London to New York in under four hours is preparing for take-off. NASA’s X-59 quiet supersonic research aircraft is undergoing final safety tests before making ...

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 ...

NASA's experimental supersonic X-59 jet designed to travel faster than the speed of sound is preparing for its second flight ...

When a passenger aircraft crosses Mach 1, it's moving faster than sound. That shift creates shock waves around the airframe. Drag increases sharply, engines must burn far more fuel, and the familiar ...

Air travel revolutionized the world, bringing everyone on Earth a little closer together. Airplanes themselves are marvels of engineering, a testament to humankind's ability to literally expand our ...

Passenger aircraft could fly from New York to Los Angeles in around two hours, but there are still challenges that stand in the way. Reading time 3 minutes It’s been 22 years since the last flight of ...