After Nick Sheryka's dreams of flying for the U.S. military were dashed because of hearing loss in his left ear, he didn't ...

Holidaymakers could soon be jetting across the skies at incredible speeds as supersonic commercial flights look set to return. A US-based company is working on designs for a new generation of aircraft ...

The blade tip speed limit of a propeller plane's propeller can determine the plane's top speed for reasons relating to design ...

Boom Supersonic broke the sound barrier in a test flight of its XB-1 jet last week, ... The small aircraft reached a top speed of Mach 1.122 (roughly 750 miles per hour) ...

Supersonic flight means breaking the sound barrier, but there are some myths as to what pilots actually feel at Mach 1. ... Myth 1: Pilots experience intense G-forces at supersonic speed.

Boom Supersonic's XB-1 demonstrator jet became the first U.S.-made civilian supersonic jet to break the sound barrier. The independently funded XB-1 reached a speed of Mach 1.122, or about 750 mph ...

(Fighters, which use supersonic speed briefly, if at all, look different.) Concorde and the Tupolev Tu-144 cruised at Mach 2 at 60,000 feet, where their indicated airspeed was only 380 knots, ...