The world's first hydrogen-fueled hypersonic jet may be able to reach a simply astounding speed of 12 times the speed of ...

Key Points and Summary - Boeing’s X-51A “Waverider” was a hypersonic tech demonstrator built with AFRL, DARPA, and Pratt & Whitney Rocketdyne to validate scramjet flight. -Air-dropped from a B-52, the ...

Hypersonic flight could one day make long-haul travel as quick as a short movie. Researchers are testing how turbulence behaves at extreme speeds, a critical hurdle for designing these aircraft. Their ...

The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency has awarded Boeing's Phantom Works a $92.4-million contract to design, develop and test-fly a Mach 6, hypersonic demonstrator missile. Eight powered test ...

Could a hypersonic vehicle take flight this weekend in the deserts of Southeastern California? It appears Stratolaunch, an aerospace company based in Mojave about 100 miles north of Los Angeles, is ...