NASA’s X-59 research aircraft has flown at Mach 1.4 and 55,000 feet, the combination planned for its future community-overflight mission. Reaching those conditions shows that the unusual airplane can ...
Synopsis: The X-20 Dyna-Soar was a Cold War-era attempt to build a reusable, piloted, winged spaceplane that could ride a booster into space, “skip” along the edge of the atmosphere at hypersonic ...
More than 60 years after it graced the skies for the first time, Lockheed's SR-71 Blackbird remains the fastest manned plane ever developed. With the ability to hit a maximum speed of 2,193 miles per ...