The project reimagines 15 Westferry Circus in Canary Wharf—a now-redundant office building—as a multi-purpose cultural ...

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The future of aviation takes flight as the X-59 soars above California. Discover the cutting-edge technology behind this revolutionary aircraft.

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After Nick Sheryka's dreams of flying for the U.S. military were dashed because of hearing loss in his left ear, he didn't sulk. Instead, he built his own airplane. Sheryka eventually obtained his ...

Supersonic air travel is great if you want to get somewhere quickly. Indeed, the Concorde could rush you from New York to London in less than three and a half hours, over twice as fast as a ...

SAN DIEGO (FOX 5/KUSI) — A sonic boom broke the silence in the middle of the night Tuesday as a SpaceX spacecraft carrying a crew splashed down off the coast of San Diego. The historic spaceflight ...

The sound barrier is something many people have heard of, but few understand, as it's somewhat of a misnomer. The speed of sound is known as Mach 1 (767 mph), and when an object moves beyond this, ...

The Vandenberg Space Force Base in Santa Barbara, California, serves military space launch missions as well as launches for NASA and commercial entities like SpaceX. But how do all those launches ...

LOS ANGELES (KCAL, KCBS) — Most of Southern California felt the shaking from a brief sonic boom created as SpaceX’s Dragon spacecraft reentered Earth’s atmosphere on Saturday night. “Dragon is on ...

NEW ORLEANS, May 19, 2025 – Rocket launches are amazing spectacles, but close-up viewers know to bring a set of earplugs or earmuffs to protect their hearing. However, the boom of a launch isn’t ...