NASA test flight seeks to help bring commercial supersonic travel back

The jet, built by Lockheed Martin’s Skunk Works, took off from US Air Force Plant 42 in Palmdale, California. Flown by Nils ...

NASA takes one step closer to launching quiet supersonic jets

A supersonic jet plane designed to make very little noise took flight for the first time this week, cruising over the ...
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How Australia Took a Supersonic Leap With the Mirage III

By the mid-1950s the RAAF started to consider a replacement for the Australian produced CAC Sabre. A joint evaluation team from the Departments of Air and Supply toured Europe and North America in ...
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Mach 3 Supersonic Tragedy, Bell X-2

The story of the Bell-X2 Starbuster is one of equal success and tragedy. Pilots made history aboard this experimental ...