When the experimental XB-1 aircraft broke the sound barrier three times during its first supersonic flight on 28 January, it did not produce a sonic boom audible from the ground, according to US ...

If you've been keeping tabs on aviation news as of late, you saw that Boom Supersonic just recently broke the sound barrier with its XB-1 demonstrator aircraft. Oddly enough, no one on the ground ...

The FAA is planning to revise America’s ban on commercial supersonic flight—as long as the “sonic boom” it emits can be redirected away from ears on the ground.

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 ...

NASA's X-59 Quiet SuperSonic Technology (QueSST) experimental supersonic aircraft took to the skies for the first time on October 28, 2025 from Lockheed Martin's famously secret Skunk Works at the US ...

The US government has proposed new rules that could allow civilian aircraft to fly faster than the speed of sound over land without producing a disruptive sonic boom. If approved, the move could pave ...

Boom Supersonic, a commercial aviation company behind the sonic boom-less XB-1, posted an image showing its experimental plane breaking the sound barrier. Captured during a successful test flight on ...