If China can pull off large-scale production of such a plane, it would revolutionize international air travel as we know it.

The X-15 hypersonic research program was a joint venture between Nasa and the US Air Force - and it led to the creation of ...

For nearly a decade, the X-15 - the fastest flying manned aircraft ever made - completed 199 missions at record breaking ...

Australia Developing Hypersonic Flying Testbed is published in Aerospace Daily & Defense Report, an Aviation Week ...

The race to field reusable hypersonic aircraft got a whole lot hotter last month, with GE Aerospace announcing a breakthrough in high-speed jet engine design that could potentially allow ...

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Chinese hypersonic air-to-air missiles have passed high-temperature resistance tests, according to researchers involved in ...

Beijing-based Space Transportation, also known as Lingkong Tianxing Technology, recently revealed not one but two hypersonic aircraft: The Yunxing commercial passenger jet and the Cuantianhou ...

The Talon has been in the news for some time now, not in small part because it is described as America's first privately funded, reusable hypersonic aircraft. It is basically a testbed that can be ...

So anything that reaches hypersonic speeds, is also technically supersonic. But not every supersonic aircraft is hypersonic. There have been no commercial aircraft capable of supersonic flight ...