I tested dropping solid steel balls, and the sound they made was like a mini sonic boom! The impact was wild — here’s what ...

The first dreams of supersonic air travel were crushed by annoyed Oklahoma City residents in the 1960s. Decades later, it ...

Faint booms from space help track incoming debris. But the path matters more than you think. Earth gains a little mass each ...

During Boom's test flight in January, the company demonstrated what it calls "boomless cruise," a mode of flight that allows the aircraft to break the sound barrier without the accompanying sonic ...

Sonic Boom Music Festival's Education Programme is open again this year. He said: “Last year, TURBO gave young people experience and industry connections that could be life-changing for them.

A sonic boom during practice from this weekend’s air show at Davis-Monthan Air Force Base rattled windows and nerves across Tucson Friday afternoon. The incident was reported at about 2:45 p.m ...

I realized that is was a sonic boom. They were very low. Scared the crap out of my kids. "What we heard was the sound of freedom," said Kaycee Reece.

Trump brings the BOOM! New order opens skies across US to supersonic flights The U.S. has banned faster-than-sound air travel over the interior of the country for more than a half-century ...

Sonic boom or not, the US FAA currently bans all civil flight at speeds in excess of M1 – a rule it adopted in 1973, as Concorde and other supersonic transport aircraft were emerging.

It did so without creating a detectable sonic boom by flying at what it calls “boomless cruise” — also known as “Mach cutoff” — where sound refracts away from the ground at speeds ...