NASA's X-59 achieved a major milestone on Friday, when it flew faster than the speed of sound for the first time. According ...

The United States banned supersonic flights over its land in 1973 due to their ear-splitting sonic booms. Experts are building a plane that should travel at those speeds but create only gentle thumps ...

An aircraft capable of breaking the sound barrier without producing an ear-shattering bang: that is the feat achieved by NASA ...

NASA is testing the X-59, an experimental plane that was designed to exceed the speed of sound without a loud sonic boom. Credit: NASA / Carla Thomas NASA's X-59 jet has broken the sound barrier for ...

Geauga County Airport will host a June 27 pancake breakfast featuring free Young Eagles airplane rides for children ages 8-17 ...

The R&D zone within an aircraft factory is often shrouded in mystery, bearing top secret fruit. But some of the most innovative technologies to streak through the skies have sprung from collaborations ...

The world of experimental aircraft has always been a fascinating one. These things don't come along very often, and when they do, and because they are meant from the get-go to test new flight ...

Experimental amateur-built (E-AB) aircraft have a disproportionately higher accident rate, particularly fatal ones, primarily due to powerplant failures and in-flight loss of control, a consistent ...

Experimental amateur-built (E-AB) aircraft achieved their safest year ever in 2017, recording a record-low fatal accident rate of 2.63 per 100,000 flight hours, driven by proactive safety initiatives.