In the late 1940s, the US Army requested a lightweight monoplane that could fly at low altitudes for short-field operations. But during the Korean and Vietnam wars, the Cessna O-1 Bird Dog would take ...

Manufactured by Cessna, one of the most enduringly popular brands in general aviation aircraft production—now a Textron subsidiary and headquartered in Wichita, Kansas—the L-19 Bird Dog made its ...

The experimental XB-1 aircraft, made by US company Boom Supersonic, flew faster than the speed of sound on 28 January. The achievement is the first time any civil aircraft has gone supersonic over the ...

Boom Supersonic, a company working to develop passenger aircraft capable of traveling faster than the speed of sound, announced that its planes will be able to fly at supersonic speeds without the ...

During the XB-1's historic flight on Tuesday—its 12th test flight overall—the aircraft stayed supersonic for around four minutes before breaking the sound barrier two more times during the same outing ...

High above a barren California desert on Tuesday, a privately developed aircraft broke the sound barrier for the first time when Boom Supersonic’s XB-1 demonstrator reached Mach 1.122. Piloted by a ...