NASA's X-59 quiet supersonic research aircraft is undergoing final safety tests before its first flight, with the potential ...

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

Aided by a quartet of Rolls-Royce Olympus 593 engines, the Concorde, the world's only commercially successful supersonic passenger plane, was capable of flying at speeds up to 1,354 mph (2,179 kph).

When Chuck Yeager reached Mach 1 on October 14, 1947, the entire frame of his Bell X-1 aircraft suddenly started to shake, and the controls went. A crew observing the flight in a van on the ground ...

The rebirth of commercial supersonic flight has kind of, sort of come to pass as Dawn Aerospace announces that its 16-ft (4.8-m) Mk-II Aurora rocket-powered aircraft broke the sound barrier with a ...

Part of a continuing weekly series on Alaska history by local historian David Reamer. Have a question about Anchorage or Alaska history or an idea for a future article? Go to the form at the bottom of ...

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