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Being supersonic involves a lot more than a cool-looking aircraft. You need engines that can push the jet past Mach 1, or 767.3 mph. These days, any jet maker also needs to consider sustainability, ...

Breakfast in New York, midmorning snack in London. Taxi tests are underway on a highly anticipated supersonic plane designed to quietly break the sound barrier — and slash flight time between New York ...

Republican and Democrat lawmakers express confidence that bipartisan legislation to overturn the Federal Aviation Administration's 50-year ban on civilian overland supersonic flight will reach Preside ...

Abstract: The return of commercial supersonic flight requires innovative solutions to be developed that meet noise and efficiency requirements for overland flight. To study such a possibility NASA is ...

The aircraft is undergoing its final round of tests before it finally takes to the sky for the first time. NASA's X-59 "quiet" supersonic jet continues to make its way toward the runway. The X-59 was ...

Adding a quiet spike nose probe (lower right) and boom control tail bump (lower left) helped Comac meet its sonic boom target. Credit: Comac via Acta Aeronautica et Astronautica Sinica China’s Comac ...