“Scramjet-powered vehicles are envisioned to operate at speeds up to at least Mach 15,” NASA said after this program for ...

From experimental rocket planes to Cold War spy jets, the fastest aircraft in history pushed far beyond what engineers once thought possible. I focus here on ten record-setters whose top speeds, ...

The fastest military aircraft ever built—from the SR-71 Blackbird to the MiG-25 Foxbat—were designed during the Cold War to outrun missiles, evade defenses, and intercept threats at extreme speeds ...

Since the world came across the first fighter jet — the Me 262 used by the Germans in 1944 at the end of WWII — it has known how great a power aerial warfare could be. It showed what speed combined ...