The future of high speed travel did not arrive with a deafening crack over the ocean, but with a controlled, almost modest ...
The X-59 aims to prove something the aviation world gave up on decades ago: that a jet can break the sound barrier without ...
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Does Speed Still Matter for Fighter Jets?

The days of fighter jets outrunning ground defenses are long since past, and new aerial innovations are focused on stealth ...
Boeing has boasted an outsized role in developing revolutionary commercial jet aircraft, although only time will tell if that ...
Beijing’s “Ghost Fleet” of next-gen fighters, experimental jets and high-altitude drones is rewriting the rules of air ...
The F-15 is the fastest Boeing fighter jet, but it is not the fastest military jet Boeing has built or claims lineage.
The experimental XB-1 aircraft, made by US company Boom Supersonic, flew faster than the speed of sound on 28 January. The achievement is the first time any civil aircraft has gone supersonic over the ...
Concept art of the uncrewed fighter aircraft YFQ-42A (bottom left) and the YFQ-44A (top right). The U.S. Air Force’s 53rd Wing officially elevated its Collaborative Combat Aircraft unit to a fully ...
The finished Phantom served as proof of concept that a jet could indeed operate from an aircraft carrier. Yet the Phantom itself underperformed. The McDonnell FH Phantom was the first purely ...