More than two decades since the Concorde supersonic airliner last took to the skies, NASA has been flying an experimental aircraft designed to replace loud sonic booms with a quieter thump equivalent ...

The Boeing 737-700, formerly operated as N712JM, spent years as a secretive U.S. Air Force flying testbed, and is now becoming NASA's new reduced-gravity research aircraft with the registration N837NA ...

Aviation history was just very quietly made in the skies of Southern California. Measuring just under 100 feet, the single-engine jet features a distinctive sculpted body designed to reduce noise at ...

The C-17 Globemaster III is the “most flexible” cargo aircraft used by the US Air Force. The aircraft is capable of delivering all types of cargo and troops directly to the forward bases or even to ...

A new "quiet" supersonic X-59 jet designed to revolutionize air travel successfully completed its first test flight, Lockheed Martin announced this week. The sleek, needle-point aircraft built for ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The next time Starship gets off the ground in South Texas, it will be lucky number 13 for SpaceX. NASA's X-59 supersonic aircraft ...

NASA’s X-59 supersonic demonstrator sits partially disassembled at Armstrong Flight Research Center following its October maiden flight, with engineers removing dozens of panels to complete required ...