WICHITA, Kan. (KSNW) — The Learjet 36A that took off from Wichita last Wednesday evening made it to the Arctic Circle early morning and returned to Wichita Monday afternoon. It appears the ...

(KSNW) — A Learjet 36A that took off from Wichita Wednesday evening is ready for the second part of its journey. The plane and its team are trying to do a polar circumnavigation. Just after noon ...

Eisenhower National Airport with a goal to make history by flying a Learjet airplane over the North and South poles of the world. The polar circumnavigation mission consists of 23,000 miles and 12 ...

From left: Kirby Ezelle, Bart Gray, Josh Podlich and John Bone are the crew of the Pole to Pole Learjet mission. Travis Heying The Wichita Eagle A Learjet will depart from Wichita this week as ...

A Learjet will depart from Wichita this week as pilots try to fly to the South Pole, then the North Pole and back to Wichita in three days. The “Polar Mission,” more formally known as polar ...

The iconic aircraft, which revolutionised air travel with its supersonic speeds, entered commercial service in 1976 but was retired in 2003 after a tragic crash. French Culture Minister Rachida Dati ...

Last fall, Boom applied patches of the material during testing of its experimental XB-1 to its underbelly. The material is a film with microscopic grooves or riblets on the surface. It is designed ...

For decades, supersonic commercial airline flight has been banned over land by global aviation law because of the problems the sonic boom can produce on the ground. That may change as early as ...

Listen in to hear from Bart Gray, who is leading a flight to circumnavigate the globe from pole to pole in a Learjet 36A, and Rick Rowe from the Classic Lear Jet Foundation, an organization in the ...

The first Concorde supersonic passenger aircraft has been named as a historical monument, France’s culture minister said Monday. Concorde 001, which was the first of the 20 aircraft built and ...