The XB-70 Valkyrie was a marvel of American aerospace ambition—built to cruise at three times the speed of sound and ...

NASA announced a successful test of its X-59 aircraft at U.S. Air Force Plant 42 in Palmdale, Calif., that could lead to ...

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NASA has begun testing a new supersonic aircraft, almost 22 years after Concorde flew its last passenger service. The “quiet” X-59 research aircraft – 99.7 feet long, with a wingspan of 29.7 feet – is ...

NASA's recently-retired SOFIA airborne observatory aircraft, the "flying telescope," also called Plant 42 home. The agency's ...

Beachgoers knew something was wrong when they heard a loud boom ring out as a paraglider spun out of control, killing its ...

NASA’s new experimental aircraft, the X-59, is one step closer to taking to the skies. This sleek, 100-foot-long plane, often ...

Longtime pilot Julius Rice remembers growing up as close to the seat of an aircraft as a kid possibly could, with photos as an infant sitting in an airplane evidence to back it up. My dad and my ...

Dubbed, “The Center of the Universe,” it is a small concrete circle set within a larger circle of bricks in a town square.

Extreme athlete Felix Baumgartner, the first skydiver to fall faster than the speed of sound during a 24-mile leap through ...

The accident-prone North American F-100 Super Sabre broke the sound barrier in 1953, setting the stage for an arms race from ...

I went on board the first Concorde prototype, and one of the last built, at a Paris museum. Boom's Overture means supersonic ...