Britain scrapped its only supersonic aircraft project. But one engineer had other plans. What followed was a jet with two vertically stacked engines, 60-degree swept wings, and a climb rate no British ...

The British jet engine that failed in the 'Valley of Death' Michael Dempsey - Technology Reporter. June 2, 2025 at 7:04 PM. Copied; ...

Proving that you can't keep a good technology down, Reaction Engines' Synergetic Air-Breathing Rocket Engine (SABRE) has a new lease on life after a British-led consortium announced Invictus, a new ...

ESA is backing a new project called Invictus that aims to develop and launch a hydrogen-powered spaceplane by 2031.

U.S. air safety regulators said Thursday that the serious fire that heavily damaged a British Airways jet in Las Vegas involved an uncontained engine failure, a rare event that will intensify ...

LONDON, Nov 28 (Reuters) - A small British company with a dream of building a re-usable space plane has won an important endorsement from the European Space Agency (ESA) after completing key tests ...

British Airways said it’s been forced to cancel some long-haul flights as the UK carrier suffers from issues afflicting its Boeing Co. 787 aircraft that are having knock-on effects on other ...

The British jet engine that failed in the 'Valley of Death' Michael Dempsey - Technology Reporter. 2 June 2025 at 7:04 pm ...

The company reckons the engine technology could win a healthy chunk of four key markets together worth $112 billion a year, including space access, hypersonic air travel, and modified jet engines ...

This was a futuristic space plane that caught the public imagination with the prospect of a British aircraft flying beyond the atmosphere. The secret sauce of Hotol was heat exchanger technology, an ...