President John F. Kennedy, in June 1963, walked out to a podium at Falcon Stadium, the football stadium at the Air Force Academy in Colorado Springs. While addressing the graduating …
Supersonic airliners never became as common as airlines and government officials hoped.Photo: Victor Drees/Daily Express/Hulton Archive (Getty Images) When supersonic flight was set to transform passenger air travel in the …
The NASA Quesst mission’s Lockheed Martin X-59 at take-offPhoto: NASA NASA thinks there may be a business case for supersonic passenger air travel at speeds up to Mach 4, perhaps equipped …