Savior of many a cramped pair of legs, the jet stream is well known for lopping roughly an hour off long haul west-to-east flights. But it's working especially hard for travelers in economy class ...

Lockheed Martin is constructing the X-59 prototype for NASA in California and is planning to operate test flights of the ...

China has made significant progress in hypersonic aviation, announcing the successful test flight of a jumbo jet prototype that achieved speeds of Mach 6.56, or approximately 5,033 miles per hour. The ...

Commercial supersonic flight sped closer to returning as the Boom Supersonic XB-1 prototype reached a transonic speed of Mach 0.95 during Test Flight 11 on January 10, 2025, in the skies over the ...

FAA approval is another step toward the startup's revival of supersonic international commercial flights Boom Supersonic has passed another milestone in developing the supersonic jetliner it plans to ...

On Oct. 14, 1947, Chuck Yeager broke the sound barrier for the first time! Yeager was a test pilot for the U.S. Air Force who ...

Last week, American Airlines flight 106 took off from New York’s John F. Kennedy International Airport with plans to fly around 564 miles per hour en route to London—but it ended up going a lot faster ...

A Korean Airlines jet plane approaches Los Angeles International Airport as low clouds gather over the Pacific ahead of forecasted rain in Los Angeles, Sunday, Feb ...

CLEVELAND, Ohio (TND) — While there has not been a commercial supersonic flight in 20 years -- the last one touched down at London's Heathrow Airport, coming from New York City -- researchers at NASA ...