Venture Capitalist Vinod Khosla, founder of Khosla Ventures, has reaffirmed his backing for Hermeus after his firm led the ...

Aviation is inseparably linked to the chase of speed. Since the first days of the powered flight, engineers and pilots have ...

Speed has always been one of the biggest advantages in warfare. From the early days of jet engines to Cold War arms races, nations pushed aircraft to fly faster and higher than ever thought possible.

The fastest military aircraft ever built—from the SR-71 Blackbird to the MiG-25 Foxbat—were designed during the Cold War to outrun missiles, evade defenses, and intercept threats at extreme speeds ...

A Cessna 172 can typically cruise at around 140 mph (225 kph). Most commercial airliners fly fast enough at altitude that speed is measured in how close the aircraft's speed is to the speed of sound.

The rather short-lived Concorde has set the standard for speed when it comes to civilian aircraft. With a maximum cruise speed of Mach 2.04 (1,350 mph/2,179 kph) at an altitude of 60,000 feet (18,288 ...

However, the extremely prohibitive cost of 5th and 6th-generation fighter jets has seen supposedly obsolete airframes that ...

The de Havilland Mosquito was a fast British multi-role combat aircraft that flew in 1940. Powered by two Rolls-Royce Merlin ...

Discover some prominent but rare aircraft, which small fleets has played vital roles.