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

The future of high speed travel did not arrive with a deafening crack over the ocean, but with a controlled, almost modest flight over the California desert. A slender experimental jet, built not to ...

During the late 1940s and early 1950s, supersonic flights were still a new idea. The US Air Force and NACA (now NASA) engineers wanted to study supersonic flight, not only at Mach 1 but also at Mach 2 ...