Earlier this month, NASA unveiled the X-59 aircraft, its experimental supersonic jet designed to travel faster than the speed of sound — with a "sonic boom" no louder than the bounce of a ...

The Quiet SuperSonic Technology aircraft is America's newest experimental plane. A time-lapse video released by NASA in early 2020 shows the progress of the X-59, which has been referred to as the ...

Chinese aerospace giant Comac has unveiled its plans for the C949, a supersonic aircraft designed to fly 50% farther than the Concorde and produce sonic booms quieter than a hairdryer. Scheduled ...

Sonic booms have long been a barrier to overland supersonic flights. The Concorde was banned from virtually every country in ...

(PopSci.com) -- If you're ever lucky enough to fly a Quiet Supersonic Transport between ... 1,188 miles per hour), the two-engine gull-wing aircraft would leave a sonic wake that's only one ...

“We were in a turn and climbing when one of the inlets showed signs of instability. Shortly thereafter—KER BLAM!—the aircraft slammed my head against the side of the cockpit and then ...

Despite early hopes, supersonic civilian aircraft like the Concorde proved economically unsustainable: high fuel and maintenance costs, and too much noise compared with subsonic flight.

The International Civil Aviation Organization, representing 193 countries including the U.S., recently agreed on new global supersonic aircraft noise standards, based in part on Boom’s new ...