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

Ultra-wealthy buyers looking for a private jet have a huge range of options to choose from. At one end of the market, the smallest private jets hold only a handful of passengers. Meanwhile, at the ...

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 ...

The colder it gets, the faster they fly. Commercial flights bound for Europe have been taking off late from the States but arriving on time or early, thanks to a more powerful jet stream, strengthened ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Scientists in China have announced that a jumbo jet prototype built by them had managed to reach hypersonic speeds (Mach 5 and ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. American aerospace startup Boom made history on Tuesday by breaking the sound barrier during the test flight of its Boom ...

Supersonic air travel has been reserved for military pilots since Concorde went out of service way back in 2003. That's been changing this week, though, as a fierce storm sweeping the Atlantic Ocean ...

American aircraft company Boom Supersonic proved their name by successfully flying their civilian jet, the XB-1, faster than the speed of sound over the Mojave Desert Tuesday. The test flight out of ...

MOJAVE, Calif. - XB-1 became the first American-made private supersonic jet to fly faster than the speed of sound as Boom Supersonic works toward building a fleet of supersonic jets for commercial air ...

Aviation is inseparably linked to the chase of speed. Since the first days of the powered flight, engineers and pilots have ...

American aerospace startup Boom made history on Tuesday by breaking the sound barrier during the test flight of its Boom Supersonic XB-1 demonstrator jet. The XB-1's flight, livestreamed from the ...