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 ...

Speed brakes are high-drag devices designed to help aircraft descend faster without gaining excess speed. They're especially useful when a pilot needs to increase the descent rate without shocking the ...

There might come a time, soon enough, when commercial supersonic flight over land could be possible all over the world. If that happens, history will probably remember the X-59 experimental aircraft ...