In the late 1950s, as the Cold War pushed the world toward nuclear catastrophe, the Soviet Union unveiled a new generation of strategic bombers capable of flying at Mach 2 and reaching altitudes no ...

Airplanes are fast, but they use a lot of power to keep a payload in the air. Surface ships carry a lot of cargo, but water resistance keeps them slow. Last week Britain’s Saunders-Roe, Ltd. (aircraft ...