Supercruise sounds like marketing spin, but in aviation it describes a very specific and demanding trick: flying faster than sound for long stretches without lighting fuel‑guzzling afterburners.

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The United States is now flight testing a sleek experimental aircraft that aims to make supersonic travel quiet enough to return high speed flight to populated skies. The X-59 program, often described ...

The Lockheed Martin X-59 Quesst, which stands for "Quiet SuperSonic Technology," is an experimental aircraft developed by Lockheed's legendary Skunk Works. That's the same organization that developed ...

Boom Supersonic is putting its engine technology to work on the ground to power the AI boom, and help fund development of its full-size Overture aircraft. Jesse Orrall (he/him/his) is a Senior Video ...

Cockpit views and flight video show the X-59 going through its paces over Mojave. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Breaking space ...

The first commercial Concorde flights took off on January 21, 1976. Two Concordes, each operated by one of the partner airlines that funded and developed the supersonic technology, departed ...

Although the topic is subject to some debate, conventional wisdom suggests that the fastest commercial jet is the Boeing 747-8, which reaches a maximum speed of just 0.86 Mach. To fly any faster, ...

Set in 2062, “The Jetsons” predicted a future of flying cars and three-day, three-hour workweeks. In the coming years, we’ll at least get the cars — in the form of small helicopter-plane hybrids that ...

Data center logistics are becoming harder and harder to fathom as the centralization of compute power continues to scale beyond all reasonable proportions. We've reported extensively on the incredible ...