Cope North 2025 is coming to a close. The US Air Force for the past few weeks has been seen and heard in our skies ...

The United States spends vastly more on its military than any of its enemies, but that has not made us secure from the most destructive weapons on the planet: nuclear-armed ballistic missiles. In fact ...

More than 20 years since the final Concorde flight, is a small US start-up now on course to bring back supersonic air travel?

B oom Supersonic, the company aiming to create commercial planes that can travel faster than the speed of sound, have successfully tested their XB-1 jet. According to the company, the jet was able to ...

The Eielson Air Force base holds two squadrons of F-35s ... The fighter jet's supersonic speed reaches a top speed of Mach 1.6 or 1,227.63 miles per hour. It's also a long-range fighter jet ...

First located at Luke Air Force Base (AFB) in Arizona ... Height was 18 ft 8 in and the aircraft could reach speeds of over Mach 2. With President Richard Nixon on hand on Jul. 4, 1969, the ...

Its three faster-than-sound legs, maxing out at Mach 1.11, happened in the Bell ... a civilian facility, and Edwards Air Force Base, one of America’s main centres for testing military aircraft.

As an adventure journalist, I've been privileged to participate in a smorgasbord of extreme stuff. One category: Flying supersonic in planes. Now I'm not a pilot - far from it - but I've broken ...

A demonstrator aircraft, known as the XB-1, surged past Mach 1.1 (850 mph ... designated supersonic corridor close to Edwards Air Force base. The same airspace saw Chuck Yeager become the first ...

Mach 1 and above is when a jet can be classed ... and the Black Mountain Supersonic Corridor near Edwards Air Force Base in Mojave, California. It's the same airspace where Chuck Yeager ...

and the test plane should reach a cruising speed of Mach 1.1 in two specially designated supersonic corridors close to Edwards Air Force base. Boom’s jet will be flying in the same airspace ...