June 1990. The Soviets were about to do it again. Not since Sputnik had they so dramatically outpaced the West. They were ...

They heard it would be the aircraft that would finally bring frontline American technology within their reach. It’s 1983, and a group of South Korean defense procurement officials excitedly enters a ...

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

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

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

Baumgartner, known as “Fearless Felix,” stunned the world in 2012 when he became the first human to break the sound barrier with only his body. He wore a pressurized suit and jumped from a ...

Extreme athlete Felix Baumgartner, the first skydiver to fall faster than the speed of sound, in a leap through the ...

Baumgartner, known as “Fearless Felix,” stunned the world in 2012 when he became the first human to break the sound barrier with only his body.