NASA built an X-42A hydrogen-powered scramjet to reach speeds of Mach 9.6 for a brief moment in 2004. Therefore, this new ...

Building an aircraft that can fly several times faster than sound has always been one of aviation’s hardest engineering ...

An 18-hour commercial flight is enough to make anyone squirm. But don’t expect near-term aerospace tech to save you from long hours in that dreaded middle seat. An 18-hour commercial flight is enough ...

Only three of these aircraft were built, with one being destroyed and two operating successfully. The X-43 testbed aircraft ...

NEW DELHI: The DRDO has developed and successfully carried out the ground test of the long-duration Supersonic Combustion Ramjet, or Scramjet-powered hypersonic technology. The Ministry of Defence, ...

After decades of false starts, America’s leading scramjet engine developers say scramjet-powered hypersonic flight is now within reach. That’s partly thanks to the coming of new 3D printing technology ...

India's DRDL said it conducted long-duration active cooled scramjet subscale combustor ground testing for more than 1,000 seconds on 25 April. (DRDO) Months after it test-fired an active cooled ...

A small group of Australian scientists made aviation history July 30 with the successful atmospheric test of a supersonic air-breathing engine in flight. Working with a budget most big science ...

DARPA conducted a test of Raytheon's Hypersonic Air-breathing Weapon Concept, or HAWC, earlier this month. (DARPA) FARNBOROUGH, England — The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency this week ...

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, ...

You might have heard about the revival of supersonic air travel that will transport passengers faster than the speed of sound, just as the Concorde did until 2003. Colorado start-up Boom Technology is ...