Hypersonic waverider vehicles represent a frontier in aerospace engineering, merging innovative design geometries with advanced propulsion concepts to achieve superior aerodynamic efficiency at ...

Warnings of a Russian hypersonic weapon that the U.S. can't defend against may have had you running for the bomb shelter last week. But what, exactly, is this weapon, and how does it work?

Boeing's X-51A WaveRider — a jet-fueled, air-breathing hypersonic rocket developed for the U.S. Air Force — went hypersonic during a recent test off the Southern California coast, flying at ...

Hypersonic flight is one of those areas that is a potential frontier for aeronautics. ... The cruiser is designed to ride its own shock wave. That’s how the X-51 earned the WaveRider nickname.

The China Academy of Aerospace Aerodynamics tested a new hypersonic aircraft called the Starry Sky-2 last Friday. China Daily, a state-owned English-language tabloid, reported that it was the ...

The U.S. Air Force is investigating what happened to the X-51 Waverider aircraft that fell into the Pacific last week. The X-51 is part of an Air Force/DARPA research project trying to build a ...

The US is currently conducting test flights of a new X-51A WaveRider jet that is capable of hitting a top speed of Mach 6 (4,300mph / 6,900km/h) – which would allow it to travel from London to ...

Venus Aerospace has recently released design images of its new Mach 9 ... its new dart-like Mach 9 hypersonic plane design. ... of the sun so NASA could take this incredible shock wave photo.

An artist's rendition of an X-51A WaveRider (in white) attached to the wing of a B-52. Image: Pratt & Whitney ...

It’s not often that we get to reference “Star Wars” on the show, but when engineers say they’re going to test an unmanned aircraft and have it fly at five times the speed of sound, it just ...

BEIJING—A test of a Chinese hypersonic wave-rider on Aug. 3 was in part aimed at demonstrating a new thermal conduction system and booster-payload separation under high dynamic pressure.