A’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 seconds before gliding to splashdown. -The demo ended ...

The race to field reusable hypersonic aircraft got a whole lot hotter last month, with GE Aerospace announcing a breakthrough in high-speed jet engine design that could potentially allow conventional ...

Army Futures Command Chief of Staff Maj. Gen. Michael C. McCurry, left, and Vice Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Adm. Christopher Grady, right, toured Notre Dame's Turbomachinery Laboratory on ...

The SR-72 “Darkstar” is designed as a successor to the iconic SR-71 Blackbird. According to the designers at Lockheed Martin, the plane can travel at hypersonic speeds up to Mach 6. The Darkstar ...

Venus Aerospace has made the most efficient rocket engines ever flown. They will go from runway to mach 9 hypersonic speed. The Venus Aerospace Stargazer M4 ...

HAMPTON, Va. -- 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 ...

Rotating Detonation Engines (RDE) have been flown by Venus Aerospace. They use continuous detonation waves for propulsion and provide 15% efficiency gains (in specific impulse or fuel consumption) ...