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 ...

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

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

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

NASA’s X-59 has reached 924 mph and 55,000 feet, bringing the agency closer to proving that future supersonic passenger ...

California has played a central role in NASA's push to test its X-59 jet and usher in an era of commercial supersonic air ...

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 ...

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, ...

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

This is not something I ever thought I would say, but a piece of supersonic technology designed to help create the world's fastest airliner will soon be used to power AI centers. A strange reality ...

DENVER--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Boom Supersonic, the company building the world’s fastest airliner, today announced a backlog of more than $1.25 billion for its Superpower turbine and revealed its launch ...