Get ready to fly faster than ever before. This jet engine can reach hypersonic speeds right off the runway, which may change ...

The race to field reusable hypersonic aircraft got a whole lot hotter last month, with GE Aerospace announcing a breakthrough in high-speed jet engine design that could potentially allow ...

Venus Aerospace is a US startup developing a Mach 9 hypersonic jet known as Stargazer. The ultra-speedy plane would carry up to 12 people and fly some 5,000 miles in just one hour. Insider spoke ...

According to the scientists, their newly developed hypersonic jet engine can reach speeds of up to Mach 16 – that’s a blistering 19,000 kilometers per hour (11,850 miles per hour) – and was ...

Reaction Engines' hypersonic SABRE air-breathing rocket engine is closer to flight after a key component passed the first phase of high-temperature testing. Under conditions simulating supersonic ...

British aerospace giant BAE Systems is betting big on hypersonic travel – something its potential new partner says could be a reality within two decades. BAE is planning to invest £20.6 million ...

DARPA recently selected Aerojet Rocketdyne to build a new type of aircraft engine that would allow flight at hypersonic speeds up to Mach 6, according to Aviation Week.

A hypersonic jet engine that could be used to fly people from Sydney to London in just 2 hours is on track to make its first flight in 2018, according to the Australian scientists and engineers ...

European startup Destinus is designing a series of ultra-speedy aircraft capable of reaching Mach 5. Liquid hydrogen combined with jet and rocket engines will allow the plane to cruise at 108,000 ...

Jet-fueled hypersonic vehicles could become a reality before 2020. Skip to main content. ... Pratt & Whitney Rocketdyne is making the X-1 JP-7 jet-fuel scramjet engine for the X-51A, ...

Passengers traveling on the hypersonic jet won’t just be flying faster — they’ll also be going higher, reaching up to 110,000 feet, which will allow them to see the curvature of Earth.