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 ...

Just a couple of decades ago, aviation had some rules. If you wanted to fly fast within the atmosphere, you used a jet engine. The champion here was the SR-71 Blackbird, designed by Lockheed Martin, ...

Article Summary - NASA’s Mach 10 Dream: Can the X-43A’s Legacy Go Operational? -In 2004, NASA’s X-43A set the air-breathing speed record at Mach 9.6, validating scramjet combustion but only for 10 ...

NASA’s second X-43A hypersonic research aircraft flew successfully today, the first time an airbreathing scramjet powered aircraft has flown freely. The unpiloted vehicle’s supersonic combustion ...

The US Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) completed a series of “record-breaking tests” of a scramjet engine in November. The hot-fire tests were conducted on the ground at the Arnold Engineering ...

Lockheed Martin's Skunk Works has confirmed that it is developing the SR-72 spy plane. The successor to the SR-71 Blackbird, which was capable of Mach 3.5, the SR-72 will be a hypersonic unmanned ...

The multi-award-winning SPARTAN scramjet engine is now available in Inconel 718, 3D- printed in Australia in cooperation with Amiga Engineering, capable of speeds of up to Mach 7. This technology ...

A Boeing/Aerojet X-51 Waverider is ready for one of four test flights performed by the U.S. Defense Department from 2010 to 2013. Credit: U.S. Air Force Boeing has teamed up with Aerojet to develop a ...