English Electric, a company with "zero modern aircraft design experience", created the Canberra around the ambitious but unreliable Rolls-Royce AJ.65 axial flow turbojet. The engine was promising ...

On October 11, 2024, Astro Mechanica successfully performed the first hot-fire test up to 30% power of its Gen3 engine. Traditional turbojets, like you'd see in fighter planes, use the exhaust gas to ...

Supersonic flight is edging back into the mainstream, but this time the race is not just about speed, it is about efficiency ...

When it comes to blistering aerial speeds, fighter jets manufactured by American military contractors like Boeing and Lockheed dominate the skies. While Bell's X-1 "Glamorous Glennis" was the first ...

Traditional turbojets, like you'd see in fighter planes, use the exhaust gas to spin the compressor fan to draw in air. More exhaust equals more speed. And a turbojet is efficient at supersonic high ...