The Boeing 747, also known as the 'Queen of Skies,' took to the skies for the first time in February 1969. Its entry into ...

Not content to watch these young whippersnapper planes take all the glory, the F-15s will be kitted out with sensory and data ...

The X-59 QueSST aims to be the first supersonic aircraft to reduce the "boom" to a "thumb" and overcome one of the great ...

Chinese researchers claim to have increased the safe-speed threshold for flying-wing platforms by more than 60%, a breakthrough that could be applied to the H-20 stealth bomber.

Flying close to the speed of sound is not a new concept. In the early 21st century, Boeing announced a new “Sonic Cruiser”. The jet, whose delta shape bore more than a passing resemblance to Concorde, ...

Explore seven military aircraft that define modern airpower through speed, sensors, payload, and battlefield dominance.

Concorde could fly at more than twice the speed of sound, yet the lucrative transatlantic routes to the US were not viable, ...

Those who took the controls of Concorde say it was like no other airplane. Here they reveal the secrets of flying the world’s fastest commercial passenger aircraft at more than twice the speed of ...

NASA's X-59 supersonic demonstrator sits partially disassembled at Armstrong Flight Research Center following its October ...

Edward Russell is a contributor for TPG. An AvGeek at heart, he covered the airline business at FlightGlobal for eight years and previously covered finance in New York and Hong Kong. The cards we ...

When Airbus unveiled the A380, Boeing answered with a completely different idea. Instead of more seats, the Sonic Cruiser focused on speed, flying just below supersonic limits to cut hours off long ...

The T-Flight, a cutting-edge magnetic levitation (maglev) train, promises to soar at speeds up to 600 mph (965 km/h), drastically outpacing commercial aircraft. This high-speed marvel could eventually ...