The Bell X-1 is surely one of the most important aircraft of the last century. It flew for the first time in January 19, 1946 ...

The English Electric Lightning was a 1950s jet capable of Mach 2 speeds and which served for almost exactly 30 years in the ...

June 1990. The Soviets were about to do it again. Not since Sputnik had they so dramatically outpaced the West. They were ...

Boom Supersonic says its production plane, known as Overture, will fly at 60,000 feet, the same as Concorde. The speed, Mach ...

Extreme athlete Felix Baumgartner, the first skydiver to fall faster than the speed of sound more than a decade ago, died in a crash Thursday along the eastern coast of Italy.