The Mk-II first flew in 2021 and has since completed more than 50 test flights, operating under both jet and rocket power. It last flew in 2023, reaching 200 knots at an altitude of 9,000 feet.

Credit: Dawn Aerospace/Cover Images A rocket-powered aircraft has broken the sound barrier for the first time since Concorde, following a successful test flight in New Zealand. Dawn Aerospace’s ...

Dawn has undertaken more than 50 flight tests using jet and rocket engines since 2021, and the latest certification removes the training wheels, so to speak, to unlock unlimited speed at altitudes ...

None of the other supersonic warplanes have managed to approach the velocities of the rocket-powered X-15. The second swiftest fighter jet was the Lockheed SR-71 Blackbird, a reconnaissance plane ...

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.

This Rocket-powered Plane Could Fly From New York to Sydney ... Supersonic airplanes are ... using jet engines to do so. "Rocket engines are way too loud to use at airports," Venus Aerospace co ...

Chuck Yeager, the first pilot to break the sound barrier in 1947, poses Sept. 4, 1985, at Edwards Air Force Base, Calif., in front of the rocket-powered Bell X-IE plane that he flew. Douglas C ...

Starting on Oct. 30, engineers with NASA's X-59 Quesst program (Quiet SuperSonic Technology) have been conducting test runs of the jet's engines at the storied Lockheed Martin Skunk Works facility ...

The Colorado startup has committed to opening its first manufacturing plant at the Piedmont Triad International Airport in Greensboro.

Supersonic jet breaks sound barrier for ... New Zealand-based company Dawn Aerospace made a groundbreaking flight on November 12 when its Mk-II Aurora rocket-powered aircraft went supersonic, ...

New Zealand-based company Dawn Aerospace made a groundbreaking flight on November 12 when its Mk-II Aurora rocket-powered aircraft went supersonic, becoming the first civil aircraft to break the sound ...