Supersonic flight is making a comeback decades after the Concorde. But one big hurdle remains

Fifty years after a US ban, the door is cracked open again to faster-than-sound travel over land. And experts think they ...

Why it took the X-59 nearly a year of flights to finally break the sound barrier

Breaking down the careful, forward march of supersonic engineering.

When (and why) are military aircraft allowed to break the sound barrier?

Some may already be familiar with the sonic boom that accompanies a break to the sound barrier, but when and why would military aircraft be allowed to do so?
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Neither Concorde Nor Tupolev: This Was The First Airliner To Go Supersonic

It would make a great Jeopardy question — what was the first airliner in the world to reach supersonic speeds? Many people would likely answer the Concorde, the distinctive and sleek supersonic ...
BGR

NASA's X-59 Supersonic Jet Completed Its First Test Flight

The "quiet" supersonic aircraft developed by NASA and Lockheed Martin has completed its first flight in California. Dubbed the X-59 Quiet SuperSonic Technology Aircraft, it is a sleek experimental jet ...
The National Interest

Bell X-1: How One Weird Plane Shattered the Sound Barrier

The X-1’s fuselage was designed to resemble a .50 caliber bullet—one of the only shapes known to have stable flight at supersonic speeds. The Bell X-1 hangs today from the ceiling of the National Air ...
Aviation Week

NASA’s Low-Boom X-59 Breaks The Sound Barrier

Credit: NASA NASA’s Lockheed Martin-built X-59 Quesst low-boom demonstrator conducted its first supersonic flight on June 5, reaching Mach 1.1 on an 81-min. mission from Edwards AFB, California. The ...