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When the U.S. looked to build a supersonic airliner, the Lockheed L-2000 came within reach of becoming a commercial mainstay.
Lockheed Martin Aeronautics reveals plans for its Quiet Supersonic Technology Airliner, or QSTA, that will leverage its research with NASA to create a passenger airplane capable of Mach 1.8.
Lockheed Martin has joined the team developing a supersonic business jet, the Aerion AS2, which already had backing from Airbus and engine-maker GE Aviation. The 12-passenger jet is due to ...
More than a decade after the supersonic passenger aircraft landed for the last time, a new class of faster-than-sound planes prepares for liftoff. By Eric Adams Updated May 26, 2021 4:08 AM EDT ...
NASA and Lockheed Martin Skunk Works plan to unveil their X-59 low-boom supersonic jet in Palmdale, ... For one, the Franco-British supersonic airliner burned a lot of fuel, he said.
Lockheed Martin and NASA plan the first test flights of their X-59 sometime this year. For its part, Boom has chosen the location for the factory where it intends to build the Overture airliner ...
President John F. Kennedy, in June 1963, walked out to a podium at Falcon Stadium, the football stadium at the Air Force Academy in Colorado Springs.While addressing the graduating class of cadets ...
The Concorde was a plane ahead of its time—quite literally, as a flight from Paris or London to New York was so fast it’d actually land more than two hours before it took off: something that ...
The quest for a supersonic airliner became almost as important to the US as the race to the Moon. “You look back to that time and there really was a lot of technological advancements in ...
Lockheed Martin Aeronautics reveals plans for its Quiet Supersonic Technology Airliner, or QSTA, that will leverage its research with NASA to create a passenger airplane capable of Mach 1.8.