The wings also fold up when not in use to save ... Industry experts are still divided as to whether or not supersonic flying will take off. Even still, companies such as Boom Supersonic, Spike ...

It got the first production contract in the U.S. for a delta-wing jet fighter ... Convair expects its supersonic F-102 to be the world’s fastest military aircraft. The F-102, which will not ...

Manufacturer will develop technologies and aircraft concepts for a new generation of aircraft that could fly in the next few ...

Starfighters Space operates the world's only commercial fleet of vintage Lockheed F-104 Starfighter supersonic jet aircraft, ...

The Concorde fleet operated for over a quarter century, yet just 14 of the awe-inspiring supersonic passenger ... and he wrote the book on it: Flying Concorde (Motorbooks International, 2002).

Flying at Mach 2—roughly ... and during acceleration to supersonic speeds, about 20 tons of fuel was moved backwards to tanks in the plane's tail and wings. As the aircraft slowed down at ...

The dream of flying at five times the speed of sound still faces huge obstacles, ranging from technical to environmental to ...

Throughout development, all teams converged on a similar design, with a delta wing and similar ... Meanwhile, although supersonic airliners haven’t been flying since the Concorde retired in ...

The aircraft, which was primarily designed by Lockheed Martin, did have some components designed by Boeing, including the wings ... supersonic speeds without the use of afterburners, allowing the ...

Forget the launch pad: A Space Coast company wants to accelerate its rare supersonic aircraft to twice the speed of sound, climb up to 45,000 feet, and fire wing ... from flying in known ...