The B-1B Lancer, the U.S. Air Force’s only supersonic bomber, boasts a top speed of Mach 1.2 (900+ mph) despite its hefty 477 ...

The Concorde passenger jet set a record when it flew between New York City and London in 2 hours, 52 minutes, 59 seconds. The ...

The Lockheed Martin F-22 Raptor is a supersonic twin-engine stealth fighter. Designed as an air superiority fighter it has ...

The Rockwell B-1 is a supersonic variable-sweep ... (then Rockwell and currently part of Boeing) being awarded the contract for the expected 240 new bombers. In common with other penetrating ...

This is the fourth time this year that a U.S. nuclear bomber aircraft have been deployed to the Korean Peninsula ...

swapping out its original engine design with four smaller J79s optimized for supersonic flight. This modification pushed Boeing from the competition. Convair’s bomber design incorporated several ...

Modern aircraft are often smaller and slower than their forebears. For example, whereas the F-4 Phantom II could fly at Mach ...

Thus, the funding made available by the XB-55 cancellation was earmarked for the study of a supersonic medium bomber, and a request for proposals was extended to several aircraft companies. Boeing ...

Second, the jets would need midair refuelling from the IAF’s KC‑130 or the Boeing 707. A 2009 study by the Washington ... Only the US stealth B-2 Spirit bomber is programmed to deliver the MOP—and ...

Boom Supersonic—the developer of a 64-to-80-passenger commercial ... The demonstrator during Flight 7 flew faster than a ...