(DEK) The legendary Austrian skydiver who shattered the sound barrier and redefined the boundaries of human flight has died in a paragliding accident at 56. Felix Baumgartner didn't just fall from the ...

The accident-prone North American F-100 Super Sabre broke the sound barrier in 1953, setting the stage for an arms race from ...

The Embraer EMB 314 Super Tucano has faced significant criticism despite being a highly capable and efficient aircraft in its category. Developed in the late 1990s, the Super Tucano was designed for ...

Britain scrapped its only supersonic aircraft project. But one engineer had other plans. What followed was a jet with two vertically stacked engines, 60-degree swept wings, and a climb rate no British ...

NASA/Jacob Shaw NASA’s X-59 quiet supersonic research aircraft has officially begun taxi tests, marking the first time this ...

I went on board the first Concorde prototype, and one of the last built, at a Paris museum. Boom's Overture means supersonic ...

The X-59 jet, dubbed the “son of Concorde,” is one step closer to takeoff after the experimental aircraft taxied on a ...

The experimental aircraft has begun a series of low-speed taxi tests at contractor Lockheed Martin’s Skunk Works facility in Palmdale, California, the space agency said Thursday. First flight was ...

The aircraft is projected to fly at approximately 990 mph, meaning it could potentially fly nonstop from London to New York ...

The aircraft is projected to fly at approximately 990 mph, meaning it could potentially fly nonstop from London to New York ...

Commercial hypersonic flight may face competition from two emerging technologies: reusable rockets and single-stage-to-orbit spaceplanes.

NASA has completed the first taxi tests of its experimental X-59 supersonic demonstrator, which aims to conduct low sonic ...