aerodynamics
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Watch the Supersonic XB-1 Take Its First Flight
Private aerospace company Boom Supersonic got its XB-1 demonstrator aircraft in the air and back down again last week, completing the carbon fiber plane’s first successful flight. It hasn’t broken the sound barrier yet, but the new plane is notable for setting the stage for a fuel-efficient supersonic passenger airliner Boom is hoping to launch…
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This 1930s Prototype Was More Aerodynamic Than Almost Any Modern Car
The car lives on today in scale models and photographs as proof of what engineers could do, even over 84 years ago.
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China Might Have Built a Mach 9 Kerosene-Powered Hypersonic Engine
Researchers in China claim to have developed a hypersonic engine capable of propelling a plane up to speeds of Mach 9, nine times the speed of sound. Interesting Engineering reported that Liu Yunfeng, a senior Chinese Academy of Sciences engineer, led the team that created the unique detonation wave engine. The engine generates thrust via…
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11 of the Weirdest X-Plane Designs
X-planes are a class of experimental aircraft designed to test and demonstrate new innovations in flight — some were created for NASA, others for DARPA or the U.S. military. The first X-plane, X-1, was flown by Chuck Yeager in the 1940s and was the first craft to fly faster than the speed of sound. Over…