Defense department tests drone to fly at 13,000 mph. Aug. 11, 2011— -- The U.S. military said it launched a hypersonic test aircraft called the Falcon HTV-2, which reached speeds of 13,000 mph, ...

A test flight of an experimental aircraft traveling at 20 times the speed of sound ended prematurely Thursday morning when the arrowhead-shaped vehicle failed and stopped sending back real-time data ...

1/27/2006 – KIRTLAND AIR FORCE BASE, N.M. (AFPN) — For an aircraft to achieve hypersonic speeds, ranging from 6,000 to 15,000 mph (Mach 9 to Mach 22), and reach altitudes between 100,000 to 150,000 ...

DARPA announced that it will conduct a second flight test of the Falcon Hypersonic Technology Vehicle 2 Thursday (Aug. 11), expecting to test projections of what happens to a vehicle traveling 20 ...

An unmanned military plane billed as the "fastest aircraft ever built" crashed into the Pacific Ocean Thursday after a malfunction caused it to stop sending signals while flying at more than 20 times ...

Six months after its maiden flight ended in the aircraft self-destructing, the US Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) says it knows what went wrong with the Falcon Hypersonic Test ...

(Yes, it's on foxnews site but that's the link a friend gave me) Unmanned craft, launches on a rocket and then separates and flies at hypersonic speeds (mach 20 or 13,000mph). For a comparison of what ...

The U.S. Air Force is looking to ramp up the Falcon hypersonic technology program to include an extra “boost-glide” test vehicle, amid signs of a growing belief within the service that routine ...

An unmanned aircraft that can travel at the breakneck speed of 20 times the speed of sound will take off Wednesday from an Air Force base in California for a test flight. The Falcon HTV-2 is an ...