It was too slow, too stocky, and too strange. But what the A-7 lacked in speed, it made up for with terrifying precision ...

We go back to the beginnings of supersonic flight where the groundwork was laid for future aerospace programs. This story is ...

The first dreams of supersonic air travel were crushed by annoyed Oklahoma City residents in the 1960s. Decades later, it ...

Weeks after its monumental XB-1 flight in January, the aircraft developer announced its demonstrator aircraft broke the sound barrier three times without generating a sonic boom that reached the ...

The companies have yet to begin testing or producing the powerful engines necessary to break the sound barrier, meaning that supersonic jets won’t take flight just yet.

Startups like the aptly named Boom Supersonic have been developing high-altitude aircraft that can break the sound barrier without causing booms by using innovative airframe design such as longer ...

Under current FAA rules, only military aircraft – flying in specially designated areas – are allowed to break the sound barrier over land. The 1973 ban on overland supersonic flight was ...

while also aiming to make it possible for Americans to fly faster than the speed of sound and expedite the development of the flying cars of the future. The three executive orders will encourage the ...

Currently, there are several supersonic passenger jets in development that aim to reach speeds beyond Mach 1 without crashing loudly through the sound barrier. NASA’s experimental X-59 ...