Ever since the retirement of the Concorde, the world has been dreaming about the return of civilian supersonic flight. A few things, including noise regulations and the high price for tickets, are ...
Like its predecessor, the X-1, the X-2 was powered not by jet engines but by a rocket engine. This liquid-fueled motor had a massive 15,000-pound thrust output, well-suited to exploring flight at ...
Summary: The XB-70 was designed to be larger and faster than the B-52. It was 196 feet long, 31 feet tall at the tail, with a 105-foot wingspan, and powered by six turbojet engines. -It could reach ...
Virgin Galactic may be busy designing its tourist spacecraft, but that hasn't stopped it from working on more high-speed transportation, in the shape of its new Mach 3 aircraft. Revealed today, the ...
Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Tim Newcomb covers tennis gear/business, stadiums and sneaker tech. All across the new Babolat Jet Mach 3 sneaker, the ...
A Boeing F-15 is still quite fast, but not nearly Mach 3, the company’s program manager said on Feb. 23, correcting a previous statement. “Mach 2.497 is what we can get out of the Eagle jet and that’s ...
USAF Captain Milburn G. Apt became the first man to exceed Mach 3 while flying the Bell X-2 on September 27, 1956. Unfortunately the aircraft went out of control after making history and he was killed ...
WEST SPRINGFIELD — At 130 feet in the air, looking out over West Springfield and Agawam, Rachelle Blackburn, of Waterford, Conn., seemed pretty calm. This wasn't her first ride. "It's fun and it's a ...
Lockheed Martin is nearing the crit­ical design review on a technology demonstrator for a Mach 3-plus cruise missile that could be air, ship and submarine-launched. The missile would be accelerated ...