Is there a way to take the boom out of the sonic boom? Between 1976, when Concorde began flights to ... Engineers at Northrop Grumman gave an F-5E fighter jet a radical nose job, replacing its ...

When Boom Supersonic's XB-1 broke the sound barrier last month, it achieved commercial supersonic flight for the first time since the Concorde. It also did it without an audible sonic boom ...

Designs for the ultra-fast jet, dubbed C949, promise significantly less noise than the retired Concorde and a 50 per ... Reducing the noise of the sonic boom could help it overcome regulatory ...

Sonic boom is all about volume and shaping ... some pieces of the X-59 are hand-me-downs—landing gear from an Air Force F-16, a control stick from an F-117 stealth fighter, and a cockpit ...

Concorde's nose could heat to 260°F, a temperature that would shatter ordinary glass, so engineers devised a visor for the nose cone made of several layers of special glass to protect the flight ...