For the first time in over 20 years, a civilian aircraft has surpassed the sound barrier. The rocket-powered Mk-II Aurora, ...

The company hit Mach 0.82 during a test flight Saturday and expects to break the sound barrier within the next few months. The test campaign will guide Boom’s development of Overture ...

New Zealand-based company Dawn Aerospace made a groundbreaking flight on November 12 when its Mk-II Aurora rocket-powered aircraft went supersonic, becoming the first civil aircraft to break the sound ...

New Zealand-based company Dawn Aerospace made a groundbreaking flight on November 12 when its Mk-II Aurora rocket-powered ...

A COMMERCIAL jet has topped supersonic speeds for the first time since the Concorde, the company behind the feat has claimed.

A rocket-powered aircraft has broken the sound barrier for the first time since Concorde. Dawn Aerospace’s MK-11 Aurora jet reached supersonic speeds following a successful test flight in New Zealand ...

Israeli warplanes broke the sound barrier over this eastern Lebanese city and overflew the southern port of Tyre Monday, AFP correspondents said. The fighter-bombers provoked supersonic booms ...

An F/A-18C Hornet assigned to Strike Fighter Squadron 113 breaks the sound barrier during an air power demonstration over the Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS Carl Vinson. An F/A-18F Super Hornet ...

Dawn Aerospace's 16-ft Mk-II Aurora rocket-powered aircraft broke the sound barrier, reaching Mach 1.1 on November 12, 2024.

First, we had the appearance of the jet engine. That opened up to us ... NOVA: The obstacles to breaking the sound barrier were the aircraft design itself and the building of a propulsion capable ...