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 ...

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

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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...