Similar to a delta wing, the Soviet-developed Tu-144 incorporated special retractable foreplanes (canards) to improve lift ...

Aviation company Boom Supersonic turned to NASA to visualize the flow of air around its supersonic XB-1 aircraft as it tries ...

In a stunning, glowing image, NASA has captured the moment that Boom Supersonic’s XB-1 demonstrator broke the sound barrier ...

“You can hear some jet engine noise the same way ... “Aircraft companies seeking to test civil supersonic aircraft require a special flight authorization.” Boom originally planned for ...

A newly released image shows the sound barrier being broken on February 10 as Boom Supersonic’s XB-1, America’s first civil ...

NASA teams on the ground at Mojave Space and Air Port in California used Schlieren photography — a process for photographing ...

Since Chuck Yeager’s first sonic boom in 1947, thousands of military aircraft have ... But jet engines and aerospace design have improved substantially since the Concorde’s last flight. The importance ...

NASA just wrapped engine performance tests on its X-59 research aircraft, which the space agency hopes will prove a means of mitigating supersonic aircraft’s odious sonic booms. NASA and ...

Boom Supersonic, the company building the world's fastest airliner, Overture, partnered with NASA to capture specialized ...

NASA has snapped a stunning image of a supersonic plane breaking the sound barrier – as its creators boast that there was “no audible sonic boom”. The Boom Supersonic XB-1 – dubbed a ...

NASA teams on the ground used Schlieren photography to capture the shock waves around Boom Supersonic’s demonstrator aircraft XB-1 ... by conventional jet engines and to run on up to 100% ...