Designed in the early Cold War as an experimental hybrid between jet and propeller aircraft, the Thunderscreech was intended to merge the fast climb rates of propeller planes with jet-level speed. But ...

It's fairly common knowledge that when a supersonic aircraft approaches the sound barrier, what follows is the sonic boom. This transitory period between subsonic and supersonic, known as transonic ...

Designers of airplane propellers used to weep into their blueprints every time a jet plane roared over the plant. They feared that the fierce little jets, which have no propellers, were the wave of ...