A next-generation aircraft dubbed the “son of Concorde” could make its first supersonic flight within days as NASA prepares ...

Agency says the experimental, quiet aircraft is expected to break the sound barrier in early June.

After months of test flights, NASA’s X-59 aircraft is gearing up for its biggest challenge yet: breaking the sound barrier ...

A radical aircraft design is about to attempt something aviation has struggled with for decades, and it could change how we fly forever.

NASA’s futuristic X-59 jet is about to face its biggest challenge yet: breaking the sound barrier for the first time. After a successful series of test flights that pushed the aircraft to ...

NASA’s X‑59 quiet supersonic research aircraft is preparing to enter one of its most significant testing phases to date, with ...

NASA's X-59 quiet supersonic research aircraft is preparing for some of its most significant flights yet. The X-plane is about to begin a new block of test flights that will include its first time ...

“We’re aiming to pick up where Concorde left off,” says Blake Scholl. Fifty years after the Anglo-French jet first carried paying passengers faster than the speed of sound, the Denver-based ...

An aircraft developed by Boom Supersonic became the first independently funded jet to break the sound barrier this week. The XB-1 aircraft accelerated to Mach 1.05 at about 35,000 feet during a test ...

A ‘son of Concorde’ that could fly from London to New York in under four hours may be days away from its first supersonic ...