WELLINGTON, Nov 19 (Reuters) - Dawn Aerospace's rocket-powered aircraft successfully completed its first supersonic flight, the company said in a statement on Tuesday, as it moves forward with ...

For the first time in over 20 years, a civilian aircraft has surpassed the sound barrier. The rocket-powered Mk-II Aurora, ...

Watch the Dawn Aerospace's Mk-II Aurora Spaceplane light up it rocket engine test flight. Credit: Dawn Aerospace ...

Dawn Aerospace’s prototype aircraft has completed the first civilian supersonic flight since the Concorde during testing in ...

New Zealand spaceplane developer Dawn Aerospace has flown its Mk-II Aurora rocket-powered aircraft supersonically for the first time, marking a key step on the way toward the company’s goal of ...

DAWN AEROSPACE, New Zealand completed supersonic (Mach 1.1) flight of Aurora rocket-powered aircraft, designed to fly to edge of space (100 km altitude) twice in a single day, reaching speeds of ...

The MK-11 Aurora jet broke the sound barrier with a speed of Mach 1.1 (844mph) in a test flight on 12 November, Dawn Aerospace said. It marks a new dawn for the era of supersonic travel ...

The rebirth of commercial supersonic flight has kind of, sort of come to pass as Dawn Aerospace announces that its 16-ft (4.8-m) Mk-II Aurora rocket-powered aircraft broke the sound barrier with a ...

An earlier test flight from March 2024 in Christchurch, Zealand. (Dawn Aerospace via SWNS) By Dean Murray via SWNS A civil aircraft has flown supersonic for the first time since Concorde.