China say the C949 could reduce Britain to New York journey time from the usual seven hours to less than half that, making ...

CHINA has thrown itself into the supersonic passenger jet race with its C949 plane that can zoom from London to New York in ...

Supersonic flight began with dangerous experiments in the 20th century and culminated in Chuck Yeager breaking the sound ...

In May, 2025, hypersonic plane developer Hermeus flew its Quarterhorse Mk 1 prototype. It flew at Edwards Air Force Base.

The list of the most supersonic airplanes in the world, reaching several times the speed of sound, a barrier that once was a challenge to break but now almost every military aircraft can reach. This ...

Beyond Mach 1: The Race for Supersonic and Hypersonic Flight Morris Plains, New Jersey--(Newsfile Corp. - April 10, 2025) - The Speed Frontier: Exploring Supersonic and Hypersonic Innovations ...

Rotating Detonation Engines (RDE) have been flown by Venus Aerospace. They use continuous detonation waves for propulsion and ...

EADaily, August 4th, 2025. The new Russian fifth-generation fighter Su-57 received a hypersonic weapon in the form of a ...

The X-59, with its stretched noise and ultrathin wings, is designed to diffuse the supersonic shock waves created when the aircraft travels faster than the speed of sound. So instead of a loud sonic ...

The speed range is wide, beginning with subsonic missiles capable of flying under Mach 1. Supersonic missiles fly at Mach 1-5, and hypersonic missiles are almost too fast to comprehend at Mach 5+.

The speed of sound in the air is about 767 mph, but the speed of sound in water is closer to 3,500 mph—more than four times faster. That means Schmidt and his team will do their experiments at speeds ...