Transforming Aviation
For the first time in decades, NASA aeronautics is moving forward with the construction of a piloted X-plane, designed from scratch to fly faster than sound with
Supersonic Market to exceed 13 million annually
Spike Aerospace predicts that supersonic flight market will exceed 13 million travelers annually, by 2025.
Folding Aircraft Wings in Flight
NASA conducts a flight test series to investigate the ability of an innovative technology, to fold the outer portions of wings in supersonic flight.
X-Plane’s Sonic Boom
NASA is a step closer to being able to visually capture the shock-waves of future Low Boom Flight Demonstration aircraft, or LBFD.
World’s first Supersonic business jet
Lockheed Martin and Aerion just announced a partnership to develop the world’s first supersonic business jet.
Russia’s new Tu-160 supersonic strategic bomber
The new version of the Russian Tupolev Tu-160 Blackjack strategic bomber was just rolled-out.
Scaled completes first flight of new X-plane
Scaled announced the first flight of its most recent project inspired by supersonic X-plane, the experimental aircraft Model 401.
Supersonic Green Machine concept plane
A glimpse on a concept plane by the Lockheed Martin Corporation. This futuristic aircraft would be expected to achieve supersonic speeds.
X-plane preliminary tests Quiet Supersonic Technology
X-plane preliminary design model tests Quiet Supersonic Technology, inside the 14- by- 22 foot subsonic tunnel at NASA Langley Research Center.
Why you wouldn’t want to Fly on the Soviet Concorde
While the Concorde is hailed as a triumph of modern engineering, the first supersonic transport to ever fly was actually Soviet-built. The Tupolev TU-144 Story…