Supercruise sounds like marketing spin, but in aviation it describes a very specific and demanding trick: flying faster than sound for long stretches without lighting fuel‑guzzling afterburners.
Supersonic flight is often associated with experimental aircraft, futuristic fighters, and Cold War-era icons.
Fifty years after a US ban, the door is cracked open again to faster-than-sound travel over land. And experts think they finally have an issue that killed it.
Supersonic commercial air travel could be on the horizon once again, and NASA is one step closer to making it a reality. The U.S. space agency's experimental X-59 jet recently traveled faster than the ...