'Son of Concorde' takes flight! NASA's 100-foot, $247million supersonic jet that can travel from London to New York in under 4 hours takes to the skies for the first time

After years in development, NASA's supersonic jet dubbed 'Son of Concorde' has successfully completed its first test flight.

Nasa’s X-59 jet breaks the sound barrier without the boom, the future of flight just got real

NASA test pilot Nils Larson flew the X-59 supersonic jet on its inaugural flight over California's Mojave Desert, validating ...

NASA's futuristic new aircraft sparks quiet supersonic revolution with pioneering flight

The X-59 features a distinctive elongated fuselage and wing design aimed at reducing sonic booms to a level of 75 decibels.
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How Chuck Yeager’s Flight Launched America’s Space Age

The Problem That Grounded the Future By the late 1940s, American aviation had reached a limit literally. Fighter aircra ...
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11 people, most of them tourists, die in Kenya plane crash

NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — A plane crash killed 11 people, mostly foreign tourists, in Kenya’s coastal region of Kwale early Tuesday while en route to Maasai Mara National Reserve. The airline, Mombasa Air ...
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Kansas Yeager Shots

Many times I've seen Texas Tech get physically whipped by teams such as Texas, Texas A&M, Baylor, Oklahoma State, Oklahoma, Missouri, Arizona State and Miami, just to rattle off a few of the more ...