Decades before hypersonics entered today's headlines, NASA drafted an aircraft that bordered on surreal. Discover the story ...

Why Hypersonix is one of the few talking about passenger hypersonic travel even though it's building mini demonstrators and ...

Hydrogen powered hypersonic flight is moving from speculative concept to detailed engineering plan, with aerospace startups ...

Scramjet from Popular Science. The first true reusable, free-flying scramjet could be Darpa's HTV-3X. It is also known as Blackswift. The HTV-3x could make its inaugural flight as early as 2012.

Aerojet Rocketdyne and the US Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) have achieved a new record thrust output from a scramjet engine, providing a boost for hypersonic flight. A year of ground testing ...

And sooner than you think, it could be coming to an airport near you. What exactly is a scramjet? Short for "supersonic combustion ramjet," a scramjet is, at its core, an engine technology aimed at ...

SYDNEY, Australia --An experimental, hypersonic air-breathing rocket that could herald a low-cost, high-speed space age was launched successfully Tuesday in the Australian Outback. But scientists said ...

They call it a "scramjet," an engine so blindingly fast that it could carry an airplane from San Francisco to Washington, D.C., in about 20 minutes -- or even quicker. So fast it could put satellites ...

A team of engineers at the Air Force Research Laboratory and Air Force Test Center have set a record for the highest thrust produced by an air-breathing hypersonic engine in the military branch's ...

A small group of Australian scientists made aviation history July 30 with the successful atmospheric test of a supersonic air-breathing engine in flight. Working with a budget most big science ...