Defence Minister Rajnath Singh pays homage to Ho Chi Minh in HanoiDefence Minister Rajnath Singh visited Hanoi, Vietnam. He paid tribute to Ho Chi Minh on his birth anniversary. Singh held important discus...
19 May, 2026, 08.41 AM IST
Supersonic Jets Are Fast, But the Real Trick Is Something You Cannot SeeSupersonic flight could soon be a reality for overland travel. NASA's X-59 aircraft is designed to fly faster than sound, but with a quiet ...
09 Mar, 2026, 05.07 PM IST
Supersonic Jets Fixed the Sonic Boom… So Why Is the Sky Still the Problem?Modern aerospace engineers are developing quieter supersonic jets, but atmospheric conditions like temperature layers, winds, and humidity ...
08 Mar, 2026, 03.42 PM IST
Nasa’s X-59 jet breaks the sound barrier without the boom, the future of flight just got realNASA test pilot Nils Larson flew the X-59 supersonic jet on its inaugural flight over California's Mojave Desert, validating a revolutionar...
31 Oct, 2025, 10.02 AM IST
New York to Los Angeles in just 3 hours? Supersonic travel may be back sooner than you think, as early as 2027Supersonic passenger travel may return to U.S. skies soon, potentially cutting the New York to Los Angeles flight time to just three hours....
11 Aug, 2025, 09.28 PM IST
China’s ambitious supersonic jet C949 set to revive the Concorde legacy, COMAC unveils plans for a faster, quieter aircraft by 2049China's COMAC is developing the C949, a supersonic passenger jet, targeting a 2049 launch. It aims to revolutionize long-haul travel with M...
07 Aug, 2025, 09.21 AM IST
Forget jet lag: NASA’s X-59 could get you from New York to London in three hours and you won't even feel itNASA’s experimental X-59 supersonic jet has completed low-speed taxi tests in California, inching closer to its maiden flight. Developed un...
20 Jul, 2025, 02.28 PM IST
NASA & Lockheed's X-59 quiet supersonic aircraft, that can travel faster than the speed of sound, makes debutNASA and Lockheed Martin have debuted the X-59 quiet supersonic aircraft, which aims to enable commercial supersonic flight over land by ge...
13 Jan, 2024, 12.50 PM IST
23 years ago on July 25 Concorde crashed killing all 109 on board; marked the end of an era in supersonic air travelIn 2000, tragedy struck as an Air France Concorde, en route to New York, crashed shortly after takeoff near Paris. The devastating accident...
25 Jul, 2023, 04.28 PM IST
London to New York in less than four hours! All you need to knowBoom's jets are extremely quick, but they can't match the speed of the fabled Concorde, which reached a speed of Mach 2.04. Due to a series...
17 Aug, 2022, 03.43 PM IST
United Airlines unveils plan to revive supersonic jet travelUnited Airlines announced plans on Thursday to buy 15 planes from airline startup Boom Supersonic in a move that could revive the high-spee...
05 Jun, 2021, 08.14 AM IST
Virgin seeks to revive supersonic commercial flight - but fasterThe aircraft would travel at Mach 3 -- rather than the Mach 2 speed of Concorde, the pioneering jet that operated from 1976 to 2003.
03 Aug, 2020, 08.13 PM IST
Supersonic airlines are coming back while Elon Musk dreams of spaceAir travel in the future will be divided among legacy carriers, supersonic startups, and rockets.
06 Oct, 2017, 07.58 PM IST
Delhi to New York in 5 hours? PossibleDespite the challenges Boom faces, and they are many, aviation experts expect that at some point, years from now, the economic challenges o...
30 Nov, 2016, 12.24 PM IST
Supersonic jet could fly from New York to London in 3 hoursSpike Aerospace claims the S-512 could reach a maximum speed of Mach 1.8 (2,205 km/h), which is 1.8 times the speed of sound.
12 Jul, 2015, 03.05 PM IST
NASA aims to develop 'eco-friendly' supersonic aircraftNASA said that supersonic jets travel at higher altitudes than regular jets, so they have a greater potential to damage the ozone layer.
08 Jun, 2015, 05.21 PM IST
India only country with supersonic cruise missile, BrahMos: Top scientistIndia is the only country to have a supersonic cruise missile, the BrahMos, while others are struggling to build one, said a top scientist.
30 Aug, 2013, 12.56 AM IST