Nothing did more to accelerate the development of aviation in the 20th century than World War II. By the time the conflict was over in 1945, the fighters that first tangled five years previously were ...

The Northrop X-4 Bantam was a semi-tailless research aircraft developed to study the complex aerodynamic challenges of the transonic flight regime. Its unique design eliminated the horizontal ...

Commercial supersonic flight sped closer to returning as the Boom Supersonic XB-1 prototype reached a transonic speed of Mach 0.95 during Test Flight 11 on January 10, 2025, in the skies over the ...

Boom Supersonic is one step closer to launching the spiritual heir to the Concorde. The US firm's XB-1 prototype reached a transonic speed of Mach 0.95 during Test Flight 11 on January 10, 2025. The ...

Transonic buffet is an aerodynamic instability encountered in the transonic flight regime. Manifesting as self-sustained oscillations of shock waves on the wing surfaces, this phenomenon leads to ...