The Bell X-1 is surely one of the most important aircraft of the last century. It flew for the first time in January 19, 1946 ...

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

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 ...

Extreme athlete Felix Baumgartner, the first skydiver to fall faster than the speed of sound more than a decade ago, died in a crash Thursday along the eastern coast of Italy.