Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Chinese scientists have developed what they claim to be the world's first near-100% efficient jet engine afterburner. If true, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. F-35 Lightning fighter jets have conducted their first night flying trials off the United Kingdom’s largest warship, HMS Queen ...

Supercruise sounds like marketing spin, but in aviation it describes a very specific and demanding trick: flying faster than sound for long stretches without lighting fuel‑guzzling afterburners.

Supersonic flight has historically been very fuel-intensive, one reason why the costly Concorde proved impractical to run, and this has made it more expensive. Two ways fighter jets maintain such ...

Remarkably, these eight-year-old incidents had not been previously reported to the public, despite numerous critical reports by the Government Accountability Office and Department of Testing & ...

Eco-friendly and hypersonic—five times the speed of sound—sound like contradictions, but a Swiss aerospace startup took the first step towards combining the two, following a test flight of a prototype ...