Key Points and Summary - Decades before the rumored SR-72 "Darkstar," America had already conquered hypersonic flight with the X-15 rocket plane. -In 1967, this remarkable experimental aircraft, ...

Stratolaunch has finally found a use for the world’s largest airplane. Twice in the past five months, the company launched a hypersonic vehicle over the Pacific Ocean, accelerated it to more than five ...

The rebirth of commercial supersonic flight has kind of, sort of come to pass as Dawn Aerospace announces that its 16-ft (4.8-m) Mk-II Aurora rocket-powered aircraft broke the sound barrier with a ...

Dawn Aerospace has flown its rocket-powered aircraft past the speed of sound, the latest milestone on its path to its first commercial flights. During the test, which took place on New Zealand’s South ...

Before NASA could send astronauts into orbit, it needed to understand what happened to aircraft and pilots at the very edge of the atmosphere, at speeds and altitudes no conventional aircraft could ...

The actual SR-71 Blackbird holds a speed record of Mach 3.3, set in 1976, that no aircraft has managed to surpass in the decades since. The RC version ...