When planes exceed Mach 1 (the speed of sound, or about 767 miles per hour—1,234 kilometers/hour for those using the metric ...

One of the many ongoing missions of the US government's National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) is to make ...

But with NASA's X-59 plane, that could change ... Over a half-century ago, the U.S. banned commercial planes from flying at supersonic speeds over the nation, but NASA's Quiet SuperSonic ...

NASA's X-59 quiet supersonic research aircraft has taken another successful step toward flight with the conclusion of a ...

NASA's Sustainable Flight Demonstrator (SFD) project recently concluded wind tunnel tests of its X-66 semi-span model in ...

WASHINGTON (dpa-AFX) - NASA's X-59 quiet supersonic research aircraft took another successful ... which seeks to solve one of the major barriers to commercial supersonic flight over land by ...

But with NASA's X-59 plane, that could change ... Over a half-century ago, the U.S. banned commercial planes from flying at supersonic speeds over the nation, but NASA's Quiet SuperSonic Technology ...

Thanks to upgraded engines and advanced computers that monitor weather in real time, Boom Supersonic achieved the holy grail ...

The X-59 was developed as part of NASA's Quesst program (Quiet SuperSonic Technology), which aims to develop aircraft that can ... approved once again for commercial purposes, greatly reducing ...

Despite all these technological advances, a supersonic aircraft still cannot beat physics. Shock waves, and their associated drag, will still exist. So, a single supersonic aircraft will still produce ...

Although the fabled commercial airliner Concorde made ... at a future joint flight with both the XB-1 and NASA’s X-59 experimental aircraft. The X-59 is designed to minimise the shock wave ...