Supersonic aviation startup Exosonic, which was working on commercial and military faster-than-sound jets, shutdown after ...

The new supersonic plane breaks the mold with a radical new shape and digital cockpit, but it relies on ancient parts to make ...

Exosonic, a startup developing supersonic commercial air travel and UAV tech, is winding down after five years of operation.

XB-1 demonstrator did not quite break the sound barrier during its seventh test flight but reached speed and altitude ...

During the Nov. 5 test flight, which lasted 55 minutes, XB-1 reached an altitude of 23,015 feet (7,015 meters) and a new top ...

The company was making progress: It hit a major milestone earlier this year when it flew its first aircraft, a subscale variant of its supersonic UAV called EX-3M Trident, in a test flight in ...

NASA engineers fired the engines on the X-59 research aircraft in advance of planned test flights to determine if the ...

X-59’s engine started for testing for the first time. NASA’s Quesst (“Quiet SuperSonic Technology”) mission recently achieved ...

The latest test flight was piloted by Tristan “Geppetto” Brandenburg, a graduate of the United States Naval Test Pilot School. Along with breaking the plane’s speed record, his flight also reached new ...

But NASA wants to show that faster-than-sound travel is possible without the annoyance of the boom, which is where its X-59 ...

NASA will use 30 ground recording stations to monitor the sound produced by the X-59 QueSST experimental aircraft. Learn more ...

American space agency NASA announced it has begun engine testing for the X-59 experimental aircraft, first flight expected early next year.