Designed in the early 1950s, the Payen Pa-49 Katy had a delta wing, jet engine, fixed gear, wooden structure, and less thrust ...

Rachel is a dusty, hardscrabble spot, located in the Joshua tree desert just outside Area 51, that highly guarded Air Force outpost known for its secretive aviation experimentation. According to ...

Denver-based Boom Technology's XB-1 demonstrator plane hit Mach 1.122 — 750 mph. It's the first independently developed ...

MOJAVE, California—High-speed airliner developer Boom took a major leap toward the development of its Mach 1.7 Overture ...

"Flying at supersonic speeds tends to be smoother ... Compared to a Boeing 747, the delta-wing Concorde guzzled four times as much fuel and carried only one-fifth as many passengers — around ...

One of the USSR’s most iconic design bureaus, Mikoyan-Gurevich, created a series of warplanes that, in some cases, are still flying the ... to incorporate a delta-wing configuration, which ...

Here’s What You Need to Know: The futuristic-looking jet fighter was an interesting early exercise in both delta wing and flying wing design. The German Horten brothers, Reimar and Walter, ...

While the prospect of commercial supersonic flights is probably at least a decade from becoming a reality due to Boom ...