The SR-71 was so fast that when fired upon with a surface-to-air missile, the SR-71 could simply accelerate and outrun it. Perhaps no aspect of human flight captivates the public’s imagination like ...

Hypersonic missiles, which travel at speeds greater than Mach 5, are designed to bypass existing air defense systems, allowing for high-speed, high-impact strikes. Unlike conventional missiles ...

Boom Supersonic's XB-1 demonstrator plane just went supersonic in the skies over California's Mojave Desert, making it the ...

By achieving a top speed of Mach 1.1, Boom Supersonic has broken records and is on course to revive supersonic passenger ...

The key to hypersonic vehicles is scramjets, which are variants of a category of jet engines called the air breathing engines. The ability of the engines to handle airflows at speeds in multiples of ...

A supersonic passenger jet dubbed the ‘New Concorde’ travelled faster than the speed of sound for the first time during a ...

Moving at roughly 20,505 miles per hour along the distant world’s equator, it’s the fastest known jet stream that wraps around a planet Margherita Bassi Daily Correspondent The fastest wind ...

Scramjets are said to play a vital role in powering hypersonic vehicles. Credit: Ministry of Defence/Press Information Bureau, Government of India. India-based Defence Research & Development ...

Fifty percent of the top ten fastest growing sites were in the news industry. Growth in traffic to news sites increased year over year with the recent American election driving a large part of ...

The reason? Fierce jet stream winds supercharging its speed. The jet stream is like a river of west-to-east winds in the upper atmosphere. Airplanes use it like a highway. If flights are heading ...