Funding, low customer interest, and a preference for hypersonic flight negatively affected business, its CEO said. A handful ...

But NASA wants to show that faster-than-sound travel is possible without the annoyance of the boom, which is where its X-59 ...

Exosonic, a startup developing supersonic commercial air travel and UAV tech, is winding down after five years of operation. In an update posted to its ...

During the Nov. 5 test flight, which lasted 55 minutes, XB-1 reached an altitude of 23,015 feet (7,015 meters) and a new top ...

The X-59 will be NASA's proving ground for ushering in a new era of supersonic flight, he said. NASA's ultimate goals for the plane are to develop quieter supersonic flight, bring that technology ...

NASA engineers fired the engines on the X-59 research aircraft in advance of planned test flights to determine if the ...

THE supersonic jet that could fly passengers from London to New York City in 3.5hours has reached a new top speed in its latest test flight. The XB-1 plane, from Boom Technology, completed its ...

The latest test flight was piloted by Tristan “Geppetto” Brandenburg, a graduate of the United States Naval Test Pilot School. Along with breaking the plane’s speed record, his flight also reached new ...

“Although the founders and team still believe in the need/desire for quiet supersonic flight and supersonic drones for the US Department of Defense, without further customer support for either ...