NASA’s X-59 experimental aircraft reached a major milestone, flying Mach 1.4 (about 924 mph) and an altitude of 55,000 feet, ...

California has played a central role in NASA's push to test its X-59 jet and usher in an era of commercial supersonic air travel. Here's what to know.

NASA and Lockheed Martin introduced the X-59 quiet supersonic aircraft on January 12, 2024, presenting it as a research plane designed to fly faster than sound without the explosive boom people ...

NASA's Quesst mission looks to develop a supersonic aircraft that could one day transform commercial air travel in the United States.

NASA's SR-71 Laser Air Data Sensor (LADS) experiments were ahead of their time, but could prove to have an influence on the F ...

NASA plans to conduct community overflights beginning this year, flying the X-59 over select American cities to collect public feedback on the “sonic thump.” Still, in some quarters, the dream lives ...

NASA's X-59 experimental aircraft is central to the effort to lift the FAA's 53-year ban on supersonic flight over land, aiming to reduce sonic booms to quieter "sonic thumps." Retired U.S. Air Force ...

All-electric, autonomous aircraft developer Wisk Aero announced a fresh five-year research partnership with NASA to establish advanced air mobility standards to eventually introduce autonomous ...

The simulation is one of the latest milestones under Wisk and NASA’s five-year Non-Reimbursable Space Act Agreement (NRSAA), focused on advancing autonomous aircraft under Instrument Flight Rules (IFR ...

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 ...

More than two decades since the Concorde supersonic airliner last took to the skies, NASA has been flying an experimental aircraft designed to replace loud sonic booms with a quieter thump equivalent ...