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 ...

NASA will use 30 ground recording stations to monitor the sound produced by the X-59 QueSST experimental aircraft. Learn more ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. NASA's X-59 achieved a major milestone on Friday, when it flew faster than the speed of sound for the first time. According to ...

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

A remotely operated experimental plane broke apart during a test flight Thursday and crashed into the Pacific Ocean, NASA officials said. The solar-powered Helios was destroyed but there are no ...

The FAA has implemented an immediate policy change allowing experienced pilots to operate multiple experimental aircraft with significantly less documentation and procedures. Pilots holding three ...

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 ...

Just days after NASA’s experimental X-59 plane flew at supersonic speeds for the first time, the space agency has announced ...

Cross-country travel could one day look very different if NASA’s newest experimental aircraft lives up to its promise as its ...

We generally tend to think about aircraft in a binary way, at least when it comes to how they are operated: you either have piloted aircraft, or uncrewed ones, and that's about it. But there is ...