Hypersonic plane startup, Hermeus, plans to make a plane faster than the SR-71 blackbird spy plane. the SR-71 could reach mach 3.3 and fly at 85000 to 100,000 feet in altitude. Quarterhorse Mk 2 will ...

Like its predecessor, the X-1, the X-2 was powered not by jet engines but by a rocket engine. This liquid-fueled motor had a massive 15,000-pound thrust output, well-suited to exploring flight at ...

In the 1950s, the race to conquer extreme speeds pushed experimental aircraft far beyond what engineers fully understood. The ...

Airplane performance specifications don’t often make the news anymore. The tempo of aerospace development has slowed since the earlier eras of jet technology, when speed and altitude seemed to be ...

Virgin Galactic may be busy designing its tourist spacecraft, but that hasn't stopped it from working on more high-speed transportation, in the shape of its new Mach 3 aircraft. Revealed today, the ...

Ever since the retirement of the Concorde, the world has been dreaming about the return of civilian supersonic flight. A few things, including noise regulations and the high price for tickets, are ...

North Korea’s missile, which it claimed was a “hypersonic missile” and was launched the previous day (the 4th), was estimated by experts to have performed irregular maneuvers at speeds exceeding Mach ...

Virgin Galactic says this is what a “new frontier in high speed travel” looks like. The aerospace company unveiled Monday its first renderings of a supersonic commercial jet that it hopes will be able ...

I bought the Mach 3, and pronounced it much better than my Sensor Excel. I tried the Turbo, and the difference for me is much less razor burn. Over time, I have also learned what not to do with my ...

The aircraft, developed in cooperation with NASA, is set to become the first supersonic airliner since the retirement of the Concorde. On August 3, 2020, Virgin Galactic unveiled a concept for a new ...