The history of military aviation is, in a few ways, a story of pushing speed to its limits.

The story of the RF-4X Phantom "Peace Jack" project, an attempt to build a Mach-3 Phantom interceptor to counter Soviet ...

Boeing's claim that the F-15EX could reach Mach 2.9 has been "amended". The official number is more like Mach 2.5. In a quick about-face, Boeing’s BA F-15 business development director amended his ...

The MiG-25 looked so extreme that it helped reshape American fighter design before the West fully understood what it really ...

Summary: Boeing’s F-15EX Eagle II, boasting remarkable aerodynamic efficiency and powered by twin GE F110-GE-229 engines, initially claimed to reach speeds nearing Mach 3. However, Boeing program ...

Airplane performance specifications don’t often make the news anymore. The tempo of aerospace development has slowed since the earlier eras of jet technology, when speed and altitude seemed to be ...

A Boeing F-15 is still quite fast, but not nearly Mach 3, the company’s program manager said on Feb. 23, correcting a previous statement. “Mach 2.497 is what we can get out of the Eagle jet and that’s ...

At Mach 3, you travel about 3,000 feet per second. That's over half a mile (or 10 football fields). And at 70,000 feet, you're twice as high as the average airliner. Only a handful of aircraft have ...