China has made significant progress in hypersonic aviation, announcing the successful test flight of a jumbo jet prototype that achieved speeds of Mach 6.56, or approximately 5,033 miles per hour.

Lockheed calls the SR-72 a "game changer." The jet will be an unmanned hypersonic aircraft. Lockheed claims it will reach speeds topping Mach 6 — over 4,500 mph — and they also want the jet to ...

Venus Aerospace is building a hypersonic aircraft that can carry about a dozen passengers, traveling at Mach 9, nine times the speed of sound. The Stargazer, ...

As the need for speed grows, researchers have developed an engine that uses standard aviation kerosene to travel up to 20,000km/h.

As a South China Morning Post report rightly put it, the achievement marks "a potential game-changer in hypersonic propulsion that could redefine the limits of air and space travel". It's an aeroplane ...