Somewhere over the California desert, a small white aircraft punched through the sound barrier twice, and nobody on the ...

Bean or box? Boiled down to its bones, that is the question facing the pioneers who stumble into the first Scion dealerships. Whoa. Scion? It means "a descendant or offspring." (It's pronounced ...

At the height of the Cold War, the United States came up with the ultimate strategic bomber. This was the North American XB-70 Valkyrie. The XB-70 was a Mach 3 prototype that would have led to the ...

Despite its technical triumphs and support from aviators, the XB-70’s operational future unraveled almost as quickly as it took flight. The North American XB-70 Valkyrie emerged from a United States ...

Boom Supersonic has completed the second test flight of its XB-1 supersonic demonstrator. On August 26, 2024, the prototype aircraft took off with Chief Test Pilot Tristan Brandenburg at the controls ...

Designed by Boom Supersonic, the XB-1 represents a demonstration of state-of-art technology for future high-speed flight. Being scheduled to be flight tested in 2021, it represents the first civil ...

Five years before Concorde’s first flight, another majestic supersonic aircraft took to the skies — and almost became the inspiration for an even faster passenger plane. It was the XB-70 Valkyrie, an ...

The Cold War was a wild era in the development of military technology, especially in the field of aerospace. From nuclear-powered strategic bombers concepts to Manned Orbital Laboratories (MOL) that ...

Until Toyota fished that name out of Webster's and slapped it on a new experimental division, Scion was just an obscure word meaning "offspring." Since Pandora's time, youth has been drawn to things ...

Alina has been enthusiastic about vehicles her entire life, and even from an early age found herself itching to get behind the wheel. Through high school and college, she could be found reading ...