Supersonic passenger jets once promised a world where crossing oceans felt as quick as a long lunch break, yet today the ...

Supercruise sounds like marketing spin, but in aviation it describes a very specific and demanding trick: flying faster than ...

The unusual "flying wing" concept has won $100,000 in NASA funding to trying becoming a reality for future passenger jet travel. The supersonic, bidirectional flying wing idea comes from a team headed ...

Last week, we delved into the history of supersonic passenger planes — how they were developed, when and where they flew, and ultimately, what killed them. We also enumerated the many challenges ...

Concorde made history and continues to influence the industry, even though it was a government-funded enterprise.

Here’s What You Need To Remember: America’s first supersonic jet did not excel as a fighter and had beastly accident rate—but it still pioneered revolutionary new technologies and tactics, and ended ...

The Mitchell Institute is calling on the US Air Force (USAF) to consider using in-development supersonic business jets as next-generation command and control aircraft. The think tank believes ...

Aerion, the Reno, Nev.-based start-up company concentrating on development of a supersonic business jet, is expecting to conduct high-speed testing on its supersonic laminar flow wing next month, ...

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In history there are people whose legacy becomes larger than life. Ask anyone who built and flew the first airplane, and you’d be hard-pressed to find someone who isn’t at least aware of the ...

Aeronautical Engineer Richard Whitcomb literally changed the shape of modern aviation when he designed the “Coke bottle” fuselage — a narrow-waisted plane body that helps high-speed jets to slip ...

Consolidated Vultee, whose giant B60 lost out to Boeing’s 6B-52 as the Air Forces’ intercontinental bomber of the future, this week won a contract that may put it out ahead in fighter planes. It got ...