China’s Jindouyun, a supersonic jet rivaling NASA’s ‘Son of Concorde,’ achieves Mach 4, offering vertical takeoff, curved ...

The race to field reusable hypersonic aircraft got a whole lot hotter last month, with GE Aerospace announcing a breakthrough in high-speed jet engine design that could potentially allow conventional ...

Hypersonic flight is no longer science fiction. In recent years, interest in aircraft capable of exceeding Mach 5 has surged, driven by strategic competition, defense challenges, and NASA’s pursuit of ...

Colorado aerospace company Boom Supersonic flew its XB-1 demonstrator for the first time on Friday. Nicknamed the "baby boom," the jet tests technologies for Boom's future Mach 1.7 Overture airliner.

Summary and Key Points: The Douglas X-3 “Stiletto,” designed to research sustained supersonic speeds and achieve a maximum speed of 2,000 mph, ultimately fell short due to being severely underpowered.

At nearly 78,000 feet over New Mexico on January 25, 1966, an SR-71 Blackbird was cruising at more than three times the speed of sound when everything suddenly went wrong. The aircraft, built from ...