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Does Speed Still Matter for Fighter Jets?

The days of fighter jets outrunning ground defenses are long since past, and new aerial innovations are focused on stealth ...
Supersonic-style passenger travel is no longer a nostalgic fantasy from the Concorde era but a live engineering project, ...
It's fairly common knowledge that when a supersonic aircraft approaches the sound barrier, what follows is the sonic boom. This transitory period between subsonic and supersonic, known as transonic ...
DENVER (KDVR) — A Denver-based supersonic jet company became part of history when it became the company behind the first civil manufactured jet in the United States to hit supersonic speeds. Boom ...
American aerospace startup Boom made history on Tuesday by breaking the sound barrier during the test flight of its Boom Supersonic XB-1 demonstrator jet. The XB-1's flight, livestreamed from the ...