The FAA is eliminating a decades-old rule that bars new supersonic commercial jets.

NASA’s X-59 has reached 924 mph and 55,000 feet, bringing the agency closer to proving that future supersonic passenger ...

NASA's Quesst mission looks to develop a supersonic aircraft that could one day transform commercial air travel in the United ...

California has played a central role in NASA's push to test its X-59 jet and usher in an era of commercial supersonic air ...

A long-standing ban on commercial supersonic flights over the United States would be overturned in a new rule proposed by the ...

Boom Supersonic has launched "The Boom Prize," offering $800,000 ($750k cash + $50k company stock) for the first amateur-built, air-breathing, radio-controlled aircraft to exceed the speed of sound.

The Federal Aviation Administration announced a proposed rule change Tuesday that would lift the ban on supersonic flights over the continental U.S. by non-military planes, a policy that’s been in ...

Editor’s Note: To watch a video version of this article, click here. For 53 years, one federal regulation has stood between ...

The Federal Aviation Administration has issued a landmark notice of proposed rulemaking that officially lifts the 1973 ...

A ban on continental supersonic flight has been in place since the 1970s, to ensure nobody endures the noisy sonic booms left in their wake. Aeronautic engineering has come a long way since then, ...

For decades, supersonic flights over the continental United States have been banned by regulators due to the sonic booms produced by the aircraft. However, it sounds like that could soon be changing.