Engineers at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in Pasadena, California, have demonstrated that the blades of their ...

If you've been keeping tabs on aviation news as of late, you saw that Boom Supersonic just recently broke the sound barrier with its XB-1 demonstrator aircraft. Oddly enough, no one on the ground ...

NASA has pushed Mars helicopter rotor blades past Mach 1, a step toward future aircraft that could carry heavier science ...

The rotor blades that will carry NASA's next-generation helicopters to new Martian heights broke the sound barrier during ...

Supersonic rotor breakthrough: NASA achieved Mach 1.08 rotor tip speeds in Mars helicopter tests, surpassing a key engineering barrier for sustained flight in the planet’s thin atmosphere. SkyFall ...

“Mach 1”: The term refers to the speed of sound, which is not a fixed number but varies based on the temperature of the surrounding gas. Named for Austrian physicist Ernst Mach, the term is a little ...