In the middle of the Cold War, the Bell X-2 Starbuster pushed aviation beyond every known limit. Rocket-powered and capable ...

Fire it up: Now Hermeus has partnered with the US Air Force and the Presidential and Executive Airlift Directorate to work towards hypersonic travel for the Department of Defense.

UK company Reaction Engines has tested its innovative precooler at airflow temperature conditions equivalent to Mach 5, or five times the speed of sound. This achievement marks a significant milestone ...

Key Points and Summary - The MiG-25 Foxbat was the USSR’s answer to fast intruders: climb hard, sprint high, and intercept before they reached Soviet airspace. -First flown in 1964, it used two ...

These speeds would be completely out of the question without Reaction's extraordinary precooler, a kind of radiator-on-steroids that's charged with the task of taking a hypersonic stream of air, ...

Lockheed Martin’s unmanned SR-72 aircraft concept has surfaced again with renewed vigour, with company leadership now pushing a reusable, air-breathing hypersonic vehicle as an “affordable” way to ...

The next generation of airborne weapons will undoubtedly be hypersonic. Already a number of nations are playing around with the idea, some have a few in their inventory, and just one claims to have ...

In their quest to field hypersonic weapons, the U.S. military is testing the potential for new, innovative weapons. The United States Air Force 846th Test Squadron launched a recoverable test sled, ...

We’ve heard blasé dialog about Mach numbers from fighter pilots in movies, but do you know what Mach numbers actually mean? Among other things, it means that two planes going at Mach 1 can actually be ...

North American test pilot George Welch went supersonic in one of the three XP-86s his company built. But when? If you think Chuck Yeager, flying the Bell XS-1 on October 14, 1947, was the first pilot ...

The Air Force One of the future might be getting a major speed boost. An aerospace company called Hermeus on Thursday announced a contract with the US Air Force and the Presidential and Executive ...