NASA and Boeing have effectively cancelled the X-66 Transonic Truss-Braced Wing (TTBW) concept demonstrator aircraft. Officially described as a "pause," development of the thin-wing airplane is being ...

Chinese researchers claim to have increased the safe-speed threshold for flying-wing platforms by more than 60%, a breakthrough that could be applied to the H-20 stealth bomber.

Boeing has taken the wraps off of a new ultra-thin wing concept designed to improve the performance of transonic aircraft traveling at speeds of Mach 0.8 (593 mph, 955 km/h). The latest version of the ...

Nothing did more to accelerate the development of aviation in the 20th century than World War II. By the time the conflict was over in 1945, the fighters that first tangled five years previously were ...

Boom Supersonic is one step closer to launching the spiritual heir to the Concorde. The US firm's XB-1 prototype reached a transonic speed of Mach 0.95 during Test Flight 11 on January 10, 2025. The ...

The photograph was taken in the exact moment when the pilot transitioned from subsonic to supersonic speed. The photograph in this post shows a U.S. Navy Lockheed Martin F-35C Lightning II of Air Test ...

A year after news of Boeing's Sonic Cruiser was first leaked, the US manufacturer is working hard to firm up the programme and bring the dream closer to reality Almost a year after news of Boeing's ...

NASA has begun planning for a flight demonstration of the Transonic Truss Braced Wing ultra-efficient airliner configuration. The experimental aircraft would be one of a suite of demonstration ...