Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Boom Supersonic is one step closer to launching the spiritual heir to the Concorde. The US firm's XB-1 prototype reached a ...

Boeing has taken the wraps off of a new ultra-thin wing concept designed to improve the performance of transonic aircraft traveling at speeds of Mach 0.8 (593 mph, 955 km/h). The latest version of the ...

NASA's Sustainable Flight Demonstrator full-scale single-aisle research plane designed to explore net-zero aviation emissions and faster, more economical passenger flight near the speed of sound has ...

It's fairly common knowledge that when a supersonic aircraft approaches the sound barrier, what follows is the sonic boom. This transitory period between subsonic and supersonic, known as transonic ...

The new aircraft concept could save as much as 60 per cent fuel according to the plane maker BRITS going on long haul holidays could be looking at shorter and smoother journeys in the future – and it ...

CC0 Usage Conditions ApplyClick for more information. The Bell X-1 was an experimental aircraft designed to gather data on transonic speed: speeds close to the speed of sound. Find out how research ...