If China can pull off large-scale production of such a plane, it would revolutionize international air travel as we know it.

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The Boeing 747-400 wide-body airliner has been ... their vehicles to either space of to hypersonic speeds horizontally. Whereas Virgin used to fire a rocket named LauncherOne to low Earth orbit ...

The Boeing X-51 Waverider was carried to altitude by a B-52 Stratofortress for its historic test flight. Eliminating moving parts, hypersonic scramjets compress incoming air by using the already ...

Boom Supersonic CEO Blake Scholl said the Mach 1.7 Overture will keep the US aviation industry ahead of China in the ...

Hypersonic developer Stratolaunch has received ... The contract will help fund specialised modifications to a Boeing 747-400 passenger jet, which Stratolaunch will use as a carry vessel for ...

The US MDA completed the second flight test of the Hypersonic Test Bed (HTB), a test designated ... with some A-29 aircraft already allocated and ready for delivery. Boeing CEO notes “confidence” in ...

(Stratolaunch) Stratolaunch, a California-based firm building a reusable hypersonic test vehicle ... Spirit of Mojave, a Boeing-made 747-400 aircraft; and Roc, a much larger, two-fuselage aircraft ...

American Defense firm Kratos has signed a $1.5 billion contract, its largest ever, with the Department of Defense for a low-cost hypersonic testbed and related services, including subscale ...

He is taking on a goal that past administrations – including his own – have struggled to reach. Read more at straitstimes.com ...

Defense company Kratos and subcontractors Rocket Labs and Leidos are involved in a $1.45 billion, 5-year U.S. government contract for testing hypersonic missiles Hypersonic weapons have been in ...

The North Korean leader said the test "cannot be ignored." LONDON -- North Korea's state-run Korean Central News Agency on Tuesday claimed a successful test of a new type of intermediate-range ...