Nestled in the Mojave Desert, NASA’s Armstrong Flight Research Center in Edwards, California, pushes the boundaries of flight to advance the agency’s aeronautics mission. This is where Chuck Yeager ...

NASA just got a boost in its quest to unlock 'quiet' supersonic flight with a pair of retired F-15 jets from the U.S. Air Force. The former fighter jets are the newest members of the agency's flight ...

Commercial aviation used to get faster, but Concorde was retired in 2003, and the world’s passenger planes quietly slowed ...

For decades, flying faster than the speed of sound has meant speeding across the skies in an aircraft that creates a powerful sonic boom -- a huge noise that travels down to the ground below like a ...

As the first major piloted NASA X-plane to fly in a generation and the first crewed, purpose-built U.S. high-speed research aircraft since the X-15 of the 1960s, the X-59 low-boom ...

HAMPTON, Va. — NASA is in the process of testing a new, experimental aircraft designed to achieve supersonic flight… but without the loud, sonic boom. The X-59 QUESST — short for Quiet SuperSonic ...

A supersonic jet plane designed to make very little noise took flight for the first time this week, cruising over the southern California desert just after sunrise in what could be the first step ...

Plane could help pave way for faster commercial air travel Aircraft built to break sound barrier with sonic 'thump' Designed to cruise at Mach 1.4 at altitude of 55,000 feet First test flight was ...

On Monday, NASA announced Bradley Flick, director of NASA’s Armstrong Flight Research Center in Edwards, California, will retire.

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