Boeing has taken the wraps off of a new ultra-thin wing concept designed to improve the performance of transonic aircraft traveling at speeds of Mach 0.8 (593 mph, 955 km/h). The latest version of the ...

Nothing did more to accelerate the development of aviation in the 20th century than World War II. By the time the conflict was over in 1945, the fighters that first tangled five years previously were ...

A year after news of Boeing's Sonic Cruiser was first leaked, the US manufacturer is working hard to firm up the programme and bring the dream closer to reality Almost a year after news of Boeing's ...

NASA's Sustainable Flight Demonstrator full-scale single-aisle research plane designed to explore net-zero aviation emissions and faster, more economical passenger flight near the speed of sound has ...

NASA has begun planning for a flight demonstration of the Transonic Truss Braced Wing ultra-efficient airliner configuration. The experimental aircraft would be one of a suite of demonstration ...

Artist concept of commercial aircraft families with a Transonic Truss-Braced Wing (TTBW) configuration from the Sustainable Flight Demonstrator (SFD) project. Photo Credit: Boeing The National ...

The photograph was taken in the exact moment when the pilot transitioned from subsonic to supersonic speed. The photograph in this post shows a U.S. Navy Lockheed Martin F-35C Lightning II of Air Test ...

Starting from 6 June, CNES will be conducting several stratospheric balloon flights from the Kiruna launch base in Sweden for the purposes of a particularly innovative mission: to perform drop tests ...

NASA's modified B-29 Mothership launched the X-1 and D-558, enabling the first Mach 1 and Mach 2 flights and advancing ...