Aerospace startup Dawn Aerospace has made a major advance in its push to create a highly reusable spaceplane. The latest test flight reached transonic speeds of Mach 0.92 and an altitude of 50,000 ft ...

Although its main area of expertise is outer space, the American agency NASA is knee-deep in aviation as well. Just as you’re reading this the organization is involved in projects meant to create new ...

Commercial supersonic flight sped closer to returning as the Boom Supersonic XB-1 prototype reached a transonic speed of Mach 0.95 during Test Flight 11 on January 10, 2025, in the skies over the ...

Transonic buffet is an aerodynamic instability encountered in the transonic flight regime. Manifesting as self-sustained oscillations of shock waves on the wing surfaces, this phenomenon leads to ...

Seventy-three years ago today (September 28, 1952), the Dassault Mystère IV took to the skies for the first time. This French-built fighter-bomber became the French Air Force's first transonic ...