The English Electric Lightning was a 1950s jet capable of Mach 2 speeds and which served for almost exactly 30 years in the ...

NASA's recently-retired SOFIA airborne observatory aircraft, the "flying telescope," also called Plant 42 home. The agency's ...

China say the C949 could reduce Britain to New York journey time from the usual seven hours to less than half that, making ...

CHINA has thrown itself into the supersonic passenger jet race with its C949 plane that can zoom from London to New York in ...

It could fly at Mach 2.35, skim terrain at supersonic speed, and deliver nuclear strikes with pinpoint precision. The TSR-2 ...

Bombardier's new Global 8000 private jet has a claimed top speed of Mach 0.94, with a sustained cruising speed of Mach 0.92.

Imagine a train with jet engines strapped to its roof - screaming down the tracks at over 180 mph. That happened. In the ...

The Indian Air Force is set to retire its iconic MiG-21 fighters by September, marking the end of an era for India's first supersonic jets. By September, the Indian Air Force (IAF)'s remaining 40 of ...

Late last week, American company Boom Supersonic flew faster than the speed of sound with its XB-1 supersonic demonstrator ...

Boom Supersonic says its production plane, known as Overture, will fly at 60,000 feet, the same as Concorde. The speed, Mach ...

On July 25, 2000, an Air France Concorde supersonic jet crashed on takeoff from Paris, killing 113 people, including four on the ground.

It's been a long time coming, but the first flight of the X-59 experimental aircraft, made by NASA and Lockheed Martin Skunk Works as a means to prove that quiet supersonic flight is possible, is ...