In a major leap forward in the field of hypersonic flight, China has announced that an engine developed by it has shown to ...

Boom Supersonic plans to build the world’s fastest airliner, Overture, and this week announced a breakthrough in the development process. The post Boom Supersonic announces breakthrough in travel at ...

Sound waves travel at approximately 750 mph at sea level, but slow down at higher altitudes. The speed of sound is called "Mach 1." Supersonic refers to speeds from Mach 1 to Mach 5 (1 to 5 times ...

When planes exceed Mach 1 (the speed of sound, or about 767 miles per hour—1,234 kilometers/hour for those using the metric ...

A person fires a starting pistol. A distant observer stood 200 metres away (measured using a 20 m tape measure or trundle wheel) records the time between seeing the flash of light from the ...

Prior to 2003 a transatlantic trip from new york to london could be done in as little as 3 hours, compaired to today's fight ...

But, once commercialised, engineers hope the T-flight train will reach speeds of 1,243mph, which is faster than the speed of ...

CHINA has unveiled its latest supersonic drone which reportedly could fly passengers at twice the speed of Concorde. The ...

Boom Supersonic's XB-1 demonstrator craft could become the first commercial jet to break the sound barrier since Concorde after acing its 11th test and reaching 0.95 Mach at low altitudes.

Boom Supersonic’ s XB-1 aircraft climbed over 35,000ft on Tuesday before accelerating to Mach 1.1 speed and then breaking the sound barrier in three high-speed runs spanning 35 minutes over the Mojave ...

Pilots have been exploiting the augmented jet stream to coast across the Atlantic Ocean at speeds of up to 840 mph — which is faster than the speed of sound, the outlet reported. The planes didn ...