Guinness recognises jet record
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The Guinness Book of Records has officially recognised the world speed record set by Nasa&#39;s X-43A hypersonic aircraft earlier this year.
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The world's biggest jumbo jet lifted  off safely on Thursday from Singapore on its long-delayed first  commercial flight, as part of Singapore Airlines' daily service  to Sydney.
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An unmanned NASA jet was launched over the Pacific Ocean on Tuesday in a bid to demonstrate a radical new engine technology by flying at a world-record 7,000 mph - almost 10 times the speed of sound.
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A tiny unmanned NASA &quot;scramjet&quot; soared above the Pacific Ocean yesterday at nearly 10 times the speed of sound, or almost 7,000 mph, in a record-breaking demonstration of a radical new engine technology.
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By staff writers and wires. NASA says it has broken the world speed record for powered flight with an experimental jet that has just flown at 10 times the speed of sound.
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A Czech-built plane makes the world's first canola-powered jet flight. Next up: modifying a Learjet.
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Decades of research come to a close as NASA&#39;s X-43 test flight goes off without a hitch. HAMPTON -- It was more than a record-breaking event Tuesday when an experimental airplane called the X-43A streaked
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An unmanned experimental jet broke a world record for speed on Tuesday by accelerating to about 7,000 miles per hour high over the Pacific Ocean in a NASA test of cutting-edge engine technology.
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TOULOUSE, France  - Airbus showed off its giant A380, a double-decked behemoth that could revolutionize long-haul flying, at a lavish ceremony Tuesday with European leaders gathered for the first official look at the world's largest passenger plane. Airbus SAS is betting its newfound status as the world's leading jet maker on the "superjumbo" that has a 79.85-metre wingspan, a tail as tall as a seven-storey building and cost &#36;13 billion US to develop.
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NASA plans to try to set a world speed record for jets with the flight of a pilotless vehicle that culminates a decades-long research program into hypersonic flight.
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The world's biggest jumbo jet lifted off safely on Thursday from Singapore on its long-delayed first commercial flight, as part of Singapore Airlines' daily service to Sydney.
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EDWARDS AIR FORCE BASE, United States : A US hypersonic experimental scramjet, the X-43A, clocked up a test flight at a world record speed 10 times faster than sound, NASA said.
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A small, pilotless NASA aircraft set a speed record for jet planes on Tuesday when it dashed out over the Pacific Ocean at almost 10 times the speed of sound, project officials announced.
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A sleek NASA X-43A aircraft set a world speed record Tuesday, flying at more than 6,600 mph in a test flight that eventually could revolutionize air travel and space exploration.
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The Guinness Book of Records officially recognises the speed record set by Nasa's X-43A hypersonic aircraft.
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An experimental jet engine has been  successfully tested at speeds of up to 11,000 km (6,835 miles)  per hour, or 10 times the speed of sound, during trials in  Australia's outback, defense scientists said on Friday.
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An experimental pilotless jet will today attempt to break the world speed record by reaching 7,000mph - the equivalent of two miles per second.