Pilots sometimes need to operate at slow speeds—during tight turns and landings, for instance—and good low-speed handling is the hallmark of a great fighter jet. People tend to associate raw speed ...

The Boeing 747 is one of the primary long-range wide-body airplanes flown throughout the world. These four-engine passenger planes can carry over 360 passengers and crew and were the first aircraft to ...

The A350's approach speed is somewhat slower than other widebodies, but not so much as to start turning heads.

Seven down. Three to go. Boom Supersonic—the developer of a 64-to-80-passenger commercial airliner that flies faster than the speed of sound—last week set speed and altitude records with its XB-1 test ...

Which brings us to the Airbus Racer, which has just beaten its level flight cruise speed objective of 407 km/h (253 mph) in a test flight, topping out at a claimed 420 km/h (261 mph). This remarkable ...

PARIS, June 16, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Bombardier is proud to announce that its flagship aircraft, the Global 7500, has set a new speed record on a mission departing from Pierre Elliott Trudeau ...

Boom Supersonic, a company working to develop passenger aircraft capable of traveling faster than the speed of sound, announced that its planes will be able to fly at supersonic speeds without the ...