Commercial supersonic flight sped closer to returning as the Boom Supersonic XB-1 prototype reached a transonic speed of Mach 0.95 during Test Flight 11 on January 10, 2025, in the skies over the ...

NASA's Sustainable Flight Demonstrator full-scale single-aisle research plane designed to explore net-zero aviation emissions and faster, more economical passenger flight near the speed of sound has ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Boom Supersonic is one step closer to launching the spiritual heir to the Concorde. The US firm's XB-1 prototype reached a ...

Nothing did more to accelerate the development of aviation in the 20th century than World War II. By the time the conflict was over in 1945, the fighters that first tangled five years previously were ...

It's fairly common knowledge that when a supersonic aircraft approaches the sound barrier, what follows is the sonic boom. This transitory period between subsonic and supersonic, known as transonic ...

Supersonic airliners are poised for a comeback. But while we await the arrival of a new generation of commercial jets that break the sound barrier, Boeing is working on another way to speed up air ...

CC0 Usage Conditions ApplyClick for more information. The Bell X-1 was an experimental aircraft designed to gather data on transonic speed: speeds close to the speed of sound. Find out how research ...