NASA's X-59 quiet supersonic research aircraft flew with its "wheels-up" for the first time this month, marking a major ...

NASA and Russia used the Tupolev Tu-144LL in the 1990s to study supersonic flight, gathering data for future high-speed ...

Since the Wright brothers’ first flight in 1903, aeroplanes have become an important transportation method for both people ...

NASA's experimental supersonic X-59 jet designed to travel faster than the speed of sound is preparing for its second flight ...

(CNN) — On January 21, 1976 a teenage John Tye was among crowds of onlookers clinging to a chain link fence, cheering as the first commercial British Airways Concorde flight departed from London’s ...

Lockheed Martin designed NASA's Quesst mission. An experimental aircraft called X-59 is being tested as a significant part of ...

Tye was exhilarated, amazed and inspired as he saw this sleek, supersonic airplane of the future climb into the skies and make history. Little did Tye know some 20 years later, he’d be sitting in the ...

Supersonic flying A photo of Concorde pilot Barbara Harmer at the controls for a London to New York flight in 1993. - Patrick Durand/Sygma/Getty Images Richard Westray, who first piloted Concorde in ...