Transatlantic flights flew over 800 mph after freezing weather juiced the jet stream
At least two flights briefly traveled faster than the speed of sound as the jet stream sped up, but there would not have been ...
The intriguing phenomenon helping planes slingshot across the Atlantic at 800 mph
The jet stream is like a river of west-to-east winds in the upper atmosphere. Airplanes use it like a highway.
Jet stream helping planes slingshot across Atlantic Ocean at 800 mph
When Virgin Atlantic Flight 10 took off from New York’s JFK International Airport this week, it was running 1 hour 13 minutes ...
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The Comeback of the Commercial Supersonic Jet
We visited Boom Supersonic's hangar in Mojave, California, as the company makes preparations to break the sound barrier with its XB-1 demonstrator aircraft.
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Here's what we know about Lockheed Martin's mysterious SR-72
Built by Lockheed Martin in the 1960s, the SR-71 could reach speeds exceeding Mach 3 (above 2,200 mph). That's over 3 times faster than the speed of sound. The recon jets went out of service in 1998.
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Russia’s hypersonic Zircon anti-ship missile reaches eight times speed of sound
TASS/. Russia’s new hypersonic anti-ship Zircon missile has reached eight times the speed of sound during the test, a source with Russia’s defense sector told TASS. "During the tests of the ...