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THE ‘Son of Concorde’ supersonic plane being built by Nasa has started testing its ‘quiet’ jet engines ahead of its first ...

THE 'Son of Concorde' supersonic plane being built by Nasa has started testing its 'quiet' jet engines ahead of its first flight test. The supersonic aircraft is called the X-59 Quesst – and it ...

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

Supersonic test plane XB-1 smashed its top speed record Tuesday, screaming through the sky at Mach 0.82 or 499 knots (575 mph ...

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

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 ...

This Tuesday's flight tests, piloted by Boom's ace Chief ... or around three times as fast as the Concorde (1,354mph). Stargazer would even be five-times faster than X-59 (937 mph), an upcoming ...

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