When legendary pilot Chuck Yeager broke the sound barrier and flew the Bell X-1 past Mach 1 in 1947, it was the greatest aviation milestone ever achieved at that time. These days, however, reaching ...

The history of military aviation is, in a few ways, a story of pushing speed to its limits.

What good is a spy plane that can outrun missiles if it cannot outrun its own engineering bill? The SR-72, often described as ...