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 ...

Aviation history was just very quietly made in the skies of Southern California. NASA’s X-59 supersonic jet completed its first test flight on Tuesday morning, bringing ultra-fast commercial air ...

The X-59 quiet supersonic jet, built for NASA by Lockheed Martin (NYSE:LMT), successfully completed its first test flight in California on Tuesday, paving the way for faster commercial air travel. The ...

Nearly a decade after NASA partnered with Lockheed Martin to build the X-59, the supersonic jet has completed its first flight in California, according to a press release spotted by Gizmodo. The X-59 ...

Humankind is always on a quest for speed: You can ride the fastest rollercoaster in the world, the Formula Rossa, at Ferrari World in Abu Dhabi, and the fastest land speed record was achieved in 1997 ...

COLORADO SPRINGS—High-speed aircraft developer Hermeus has begun taxi tests of its Pratt & Whitney F100-229-powered ...

Boom Supersonic took a step toward its passenger jet ambitions Friday by completing the first flight of its demonstrator plane, called XB-1, at the Mojave Air & Space Port in California. The company ...