THE wheels are off in the battle to achieve supersonic air travel as NASA’s “Son of Concorde” passes another major milestone.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Boom Supersonic is one step closer to launching the spiritual heir to the Concorde. The US firm's XB-1 prototype reached a ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. For the second time in just over nine months, an Atlanta-based company this week debuted a new supersonic test aircraft. Hermeus ...

The high-speed uncrewed test aircraft performed its first flight at Edwards AFB, just a year after the launch of the development. Hermeus, a U.S. company aiming to develop hypersonic aircraft quickly ...

The desire to fly faster than ever has been the one overwhelming idea that has propelled human flight. Since the Wright Flyer ...

The supersonic plane could potentially fly non‑stop from London to New York in approximately three hours and 44 minutes.

DARPA has assigned the designation X-76 to the Speed and Runway Independent Technologies (SPRINT) project, a Bell proof-of-concept technology demonstrator for a high-speed tiltrotor. DARPA (Defense ...

Commercial aviation has changed global travel, making it possible to cross entire continents in a fraction of the time it once took. From the early days of the Wright brothers, airplanes have become ...

The incident taught Navy pilots a valuable lesson about flying faster than the bullets in front of them.