NASA engineers fired the engines on the X-59 research aircraft in advance of planned test flights to determine if the ...

But NASA wants to show that faster-than-sound travel is possible without the annoyance of the boom, which is where its X-59 ...

X-59’s engine started for testing for the first time. NASA’s Quesst (“Quiet SuperSonic Technology”) mission recently achieved ...

XB-1 demonstrator did not quite break the sound barrier during its seventh test flight but reached speed and altitude ...

Another example of how the bleeding edge aerospace sector is going through a massive shakeup has surfaced as civilian supersonic startup Exosonic has announced that it is going out of business after ...

Supersonic aviation startup Exosonic, which was working on commercial and military faster-than-sound jets, shutdown after ...

Starting on Oct. 30, engineers with NASA's X-59 Quesst program (Quiet SuperSonic Technology) have been conducting test runs ...

A team has started engine testing for the X-59. It’s a supersonic aircraft that’ll fly without generating loud sonic booms.

See Boom Supersonic's "refined" design of the Overture aircraft in this animated explainer. Credit: Boom Supersonic ...

Vid The aircraft NASA hopes will usher in a new generation of transport that's supersonic but also relatively quiet has fired ...

Nov. 6 (UPI) --NASA engineers fired the engines on the X-59 research aircraft in advance of planned test flights to determine if the aircraft can reduce sonic booms and make supersonic flight over ...