Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. When United Airlines announced earlier this month that it had made a deal to purchase 15 airliners still under development from ...

The announcement follows the signing of new US legislation this June, removing bans on supersonic travel over land. This has been made possible by modern noise-reduction technologies that suppress the ...

When Chuck Yeager reached Mach 1 on October 14, 1947, the entire frame of his Bell X-1 aircraft suddenly started to shake, and the controls went. A crew observing the flight in a van on the ground ...

When United Airlines announced earlier this month that it had made a deal to purchase 15 airliners still under development from Denver-based Boom Supersonic, the airline became the latest entity to ...