NASA built an X-42A hydrogen-powered scramjet to reach speeds of Mach 9.6 for a brief moment in 2004. Therefore, this new ...

Building an aircraft that can fly several times faster than sound has always been one of aviation’s hardest engineering ...

Air Force engineers are scratching their ends after a test flight of an experimental hypersonic X-plane ended last month prematurely when the vehicle failed to reach full power. A rocket successfully ...

Only three of these aircraft were built, with one being destroyed and two operating successfully. The X-43 testbed aircraft ...

Going really fast has always been one of the major goals of air-breathing aircraft ("air-breathing" meaning that it's not powered by a rocket, and relies on air for fuel combustion) development since ...

An 18-hour commercial flight is enough to make anyone squirm. But don’t expect near-term aerospace tech to save you from long hours in that dreaded middle seat. An 18-hour commercial flight is enough ...

Building a jet engine yourself likely wouldn't be very easy, but the basic principle of how a jet engine works is fairly simple. Your average jet engine uses a series of fans to inhale air. That air ...

After decades of false starts, America’s leading scramjet engine developers say scramjet-powered hypersonic flight is now within reach. That’s partly thanks to the coming of new 3D printing technology ...

DARPA conducted a test of Raytheon's Hypersonic Air-breathing Weapon Concept, or HAWC, earlier this month. (DARPA) FARNBOROUGH, England — The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency this week ...

Australia's University of Queensland-led HyShot air-breathing supersonic combustion ramjet (scramjet) experiment will be launched aboard a Terrier Orion sounding rocket from the Woomera Rocket Range, ...

A revolutionary jet engine capable of operating at eight times the speed of sound has arrived in Norway. Designed and built in Brisbane, Australia by the University of Queensland (UQ), the Scramspace ...