Supersonic-style passenger travel is no longer a nostalgic fantasy from the Concorde era but a live engineering project, driven by a new generation of compact, ultra-powerful electric and hybrid ...
Nestled in the Mojave Desert, NASA’s Armstrong Flight Research Center in Edwards, California, pushes the boundaries of flight ...
The United States is now flight testing a sleek experimental aircraft that aims to make supersonic travel quiet enough to return high speed flight to populated skies. The X-59 program, often described ...
Since the last Concorde touched down for the final time in 2003, commercial aviation has operated at a curious standstill.
Recent supersonic test flights carrying advanced propulsion systems validate Starfighters’ role as a commercial flight services platform for aerospace and defense customers As part of GE Aerospace’s ...
The X-59 is designed to transform the sonic boom associated with supersonic flight into a “sonic thump”—making it feasible to fly over populated areas. NASA’s new X-59 experimental jet flew for the ...
Boom Supersonic is now providing turbines to data centers to help fuel the AI boom. The company’s CEO says the move won’t detract from its ambitions of reviving supersonic flight. Boom Supersonic — ...
Boom Supersonic, the company building the world’s fastest airliner, today announced a backlog of more than $1.25 billion for its Superpower turbine and revealed its launch customer, Crusoe. The ...
In December, Congress is expected to review legislation that would end the FAA's 52-year restriction on commercial supersonic flight over land. A reversal of the ban could have big implications for ...
The former chief pilot of the British Airways Concorde fleet has predicted the world will have to wait another quarter-century before passenger planes break the sound barrier again. Captain Jock Lowe ...