Pilots sometimes need to operate at slow speeds—during tight turns and landings, for instance—and good low-speed handling is ...

Speed is usually sold as the ultimate advantage in air combat, the quality that lets a fighter jet sprint through danger and vanish before an enemy can react. Yet the faster an aircraft moves, the ...

A Russian fighter jet flying at a high rate of speed buzzed a U.S. Navy reconnaissance plane as it flew in international airspace over the Black Sea Monday -- an intercept that the Navy labeled ...

Stratolaunch has finally found a use for the world’s largest airplane. Twice in the last five months, the company launched a hypersonic vehicle over the Pacific Ocean, accelerated it to more than five ...

NASA Armstrong Flight Research Center in 2025 conducted high-speed, supersonic, and hypersonic aircraft tests, supporting aeronautics, air mobility, and Earth observation through experimental flights ...