The secretive SR-72 “Darkstar” is Lockheed Martin’s ambitious project to build a Mach 6+ hypersonic ISR and strike aircraft. ...

Key Points and Summary – The X-51 Waverider’s 2013 flight—air-launched from a B-52 and accelerating to Mach 5.1—remains the longest air-breathing hypersonic run on record and a pivot point for U.S.

Building a jet engine yourself likely wouldn't be very easy, but the basic principle of how a jet engine works is fairly simple. Your average jet engine uses a series of fans to inhale air. That air ...

They call it a "scramjet," an engine so blindingly fast that it could carry an airplane from San Francisco to Washington, D.C., in about 20 minutes -- or even quicker. So fast it could put satellites ...

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 ...

Aerojet Rocketdyne and the US Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) have achieved a new record thrust output from a scramjet engine, providing a boost for hypersonic flight. A year of ground testing ...

Chris Goyne inspects the test section of the Supersonic Combustion Facility at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville. An associate professor of mechanical and aeronautical engineering at the ...

The US Air Force has given the first look at the the Air Force’s Hypersonic Attack Cruise Missile. This will be a hypersonic missile with a supersonic ramjet engine that is scheduled for deployment ...

At the PARI Hypersonics Advanced Manufacturing Technology Center (HAMTC), from left: Nate Humbert, lead additive manufacturing engineer, GE Additive; Will DeVerter, aeronautics and astronautics ...

Australia's University of Queensland-led HyShot air-breathing supersonic combustion ramjet (scramjet) experiment will be launched aboard a Terrier Orion sounding rocket from the Woomera Rocket Range, ...