Bean or box? Boiled down to its bones, that is the question facing the pioneers who stumble into the first Scion dealerships. Whoa. Scion? It means "a descendant or offspring." (It's pronounced ...

Underneath the smiling, extroverted contours of this rebadged Toyota lives a remarkably happy little car, with no poses, no pretensions, no wistful musing that, with a little more punch, it could have ...

Designed by Boom Supersonic, the XB-1 represents a demonstration of state-of-art technology for future high-speed flight. Being scheduled to be flight tested in 2021, it represents the first civil ...

Five years before Concorde’s first flight, another majestic supersonic aircraft took to the skies — and almost became the inspiration for an even faster passenger plane. It was the XB-70 Valkyrie, an ...

The experimental legacy of the iconic XB-70 Valkyrie, which made its first flight on Sept. 21, 1964. An article published on the U.S. Air Force website commemorates the 60th anniversary of the first ...

Boom Supersonic has completed the second test flight of its XB-1 supersonic demonstrator. On August 26, 2024, the prototype aircraft took off with Chief Test Pilot Tristan Brandenburg at the controls ...

The XB-1, piloted by chief test pilot Tristan "Geppetto" Brandenburg, reached an altitude of 34,000 feet before accelerating to supersonic speeds. Boom Supersonic's XB-1 demonstrator aircraft broke ...

The Martin XB-51 was a revolutionary American jet bomber developed during the early 1950s that ultimately never entered active combat. Despite its innovative design and advanced features, the XB-51 ...

What You Need to Know: The North American XB-70 Valkyrie epitomized Cold War aerospace innovation. Designed to replace the B-52, the Valkyrie boasted speeds exceeding Mach 3 and an altitude ceiling of ...

The Cold War was a wild era in the development of military technology, especially in the field of aerospace. From nuclear-powered strategic bombers concepts to Manned Orbital Laboratories (MOL) that ...