Nothing did more to accelerate the development of aviation in the 20th century than World War II. By the time the conflict was over in 1945, the fighters that first tangled five years previously were ...

Commercial supersonic flight sped closer to returning as the Boom Supersonic XB-1 prototype reached a transonic speed of Mach 0.95 during Test Flight 11 on January 10, 2025, in the skies over the ...

Boom Supersonic is one step closer to launching the spiritual heir to the Concorde. The US firm's XB-1 prototype reached a transonic speed of Mach 0.95 during Test Flight 11 on January 10, 2025. The ...

A year after news of Boeing's Sonic Cruiser was first leaked, the US manufacturer is working hard to firm up the programme and bring the dream closer to reality Almost a year after news of Boeing's ...

NASA has begun planning for a flight demonstration of the Transonic Truss Braced Wing ultra-efficient airliner configuration. The experimental aircraft would be one of a suite of demonstration ...

Transonic buffet is an aerodynamic instability encountered in the transonic flight regime. Manifesting as self-sustained oscillations of shock waves on the wing surfaces, this phenomenon leads to ...

TRANSONIC DROP TESTS French space agency CNES has started drop testing a high-speed transonic flight demonstrator developed by NASDA and the National Aerospace Laboratory of Japan. Three or four ...

Starting from 6 June, CNES will be conducting several stratospheric balloon flights from the Kiruna launch base in Sweden for the purposes of a particularly innovative mission: to perform drop tests ...