NASA’s X-59 quiet supersonic aircraft completed its second test flight on March 20, 2026, lifting off from the dry lakebed near Edwards, California, before a cockpit warning forced the jet back to the ...

The FAA is eliminating a decades-old rule that bars new supersonic commercial jets.

Supersonic airliner startup Boom Technologies has launched an $800,000 prize for the first U.S. amateur team to fly a remotely piloted, air-breathing aircraft above Mach 1 in level flight twice in one ...

A ban on continental supersonic flight has been in place since the 1970s, to ensure nobody endures the noisy sonic booms left in their wake. Aeronautic engineering has come a long way since then, ...

For decades, supersonic flights over the continental United States have been banned by regulators due to the sonic booms produced by the aircraft. However, it sounds like that could soon be changing.

Prize competitions have long played a role in advancing aviation, from the Daily Mail prize for the first flight across the English Channel won by Louis Blériot in 1908 to the Ansari X Prize for ...

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

Editor’s Note: To watch a video version of this article, click here. For 53 years, one federal regulation has stood between ...

NASA’S “Son of Concorde” jet that could fly from the UK to New York in four hours has smashed through the sound barrier without triggering the usual sonic boom. The experimental ...

A long-standing ban on commercial supersonic flights over the United States would be overturned in a new rule proposed by the ...

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 ...

The FAA proposed new noise standards for supersonic aircraft, moving to lift the decades-old ban on civilian supersonic flights over U.S. land.