On this day in aviation history, January 19, 1946, the Bell X-1 high-speed research aircraft, made its first flight. While this first flight was in fact a gliding test, the X-1 would become the first ...

The specifications also spelled out these key requirements: the new design must be easily mass-produced with the least amount of strategic materials such as steel and aluminum, and flight performance ...

US aerospace firm Boom Supersonic is expecting to reach design freeze on the Overture supersonic passenger aircraft in about ...

Brazilian manufacturer Stella Tecnologia has started land-based flight tests with the company's Albatroz remotely piloted ...

The seventh test flight of SpaceX's Starship has successfully taken off from Boca Chica, Texas. Newsweek's live blog is ...

Boom’s XB-1 supersonic demonstrator flew for the 13 th and final time at Mojave Air & Space Port, California, on Feb. 10, ...

SpaceX's seventh Starship test flight will now launch no earlier than Thursday, Jan. 16, at 5 p.m. EST (2200 GMT). SpaceX is one day away from the launch its first Starship flight of 2025 ...

The Super Heavy-Starship mega rocket was launched from SpaceX’s Boca Chica, Texas, manufacturing and flight test facility at 5:37 p.m. Eastern Time on Thursday. The rocket, powered by 33 ...

That will set the stage for the Super Heavy-Starship launch from SpaceX's Boca Chica, Texas, manufacturing and flight test facility at 5 p.m. EST, weather permitting. The Super Heavy-Starship is ...

Lost spacecraft: SpaceX said Thursday that its Starship spacecraft — which was meant to lap Earth and splash down in the Indian Ocean — exploded not long after its 7th test flight took off ...

Here’s how it works. SpaceX knows how to put on a show. The company launched the seventh flight test of its Starship megarocket this afternoon from its Starbase site in South Texas. The 403-foot ...