How the first flights of Concorde reflected the exuberance and geopolitical realities of the time.
NASA Aims to Advance Hypersonic Flight Testing with New Awards
While NASA is working with U.S. aviation to explore commercial supersonic technologies, the agency is also looking forward to an even faster era of flight – one of vehicles that can fly hypersonic, or five times the speed of sound. And to further that vision, NASA has issued two awards for studies into vehicle concepts. […]