The contract will “improve readiness” and cut costs for more than 400 F119 engines that have flown more than 900,000 hours, according to Pratt & Whitney.

NASA's 'quiet' supersonic jet is getting ready to take off NASA is continuing development of the X-59, an experimental supersonic aircraft designed to make sonic booms quieter. The X-59 is not ...

Lockheed Martin's F-35 Lightning II hit full-rate production last year. Today, over 150 fighter jets are being made annually.

Boom Supersonic independently designed and built the XB-1, the first civil supersonic jet in America. The XB-1's first ...

Despite all these technological advances, a supersonic aircraft still cannot beat physics. Shock waves, and their associated ...

General Electric may be a name you know for appliances, but the manufacturer has a long history creating jet engines for ...

When planes exceed Mach 1 (the speed of sound, or about 767 miles per hour—1,234 kilometers/hour for those using the metric ...

A startup wants to revive the Concorde for the generations of flyers that missed out, without the noisy boom and the up to ...

Not every experimental jet fighter made by the U.S. military would go on to reach production, for any number of reasons.

Two weeks ago, Boom Supersonic’s XB-1 demonstrator plane made history when it broke the sound barrier over the continental ...

Boom Supersonic’s XB-1 creates a sonic boom inaudible from the ground below when flying at the exact right speed and altitude ...