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

Boom Supersonic has an impressive new speed record in its latest test flight with its XB-1. With its vision set to revolutionize air travel, this is a huge step to make things happen. The test flight ...

Boom Supersonic has gone, well, supersonic, its XB-1 prototype breaking the sound barrier today in the skies over the Mojave Air & Space Port in California. With Chief Test Pilot Tristan Brandenburg ...

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Almost 22 years after Concorde made its final commercial flights, a prototype passenger jet has broken the sound barrier during a supersonic test flight. Boom Supersonic founder and CEO Blake Scholl ...

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Born out of Cold War desperation, the XF-84H Thunderscreech was a radical experiment in aircraft propulsion. Aiming to combine the climb rate of a propeller plane with the speed of a jet, engineers ...

On June 20, 1965, North Vietnamese MiG-17 pilots circled the wreckage of a downed American F-4 Phantom, confident the skies were now theirs. Usually, the next aircraft to arrive would be another ...

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