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

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

Nearly 80 years after Chuck Yeager first broke the sound barrier, new competition aims to unearth the next advancement in high-speed flight.

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 ...

The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) announced a proposal that would lift the 50-year ban on supersonic flights over the ...

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, ...

Startup Spike has stepped up activity on its S-512 supersonic business jet, encouraged by U.S. regulatory developments. Credit: Spike Aerospace The FAA has proposed a noise standard that would lift ...

NASA's X-59 has officially gone supersonic. See how this experimental jet aims to turn disruptive sonic booms into a quiet thump.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Cross-country travel could one day look very different if NASA's newest experimental aircraft lives up to its promise as its ...

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 United States banned supersonic flights over its land in 1973 due to their ear-splitting sonic booms. Experts are building a plane that should travel at those speeds but create only gentle thumps ...

Cross-country flights could soon be cut in half after the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) moved Thursday to scrap its 1973 ban on overland supersonic travel and replace it with new noise limits.