Australia and US testing 'superjet' technology that could fly us from Sydney to London in two hours (CNET)

Sydney to London in two hours.

Speed Kills - Why planes aren’t getting any faster—and won’t any time soon (Slate)

Speed Kills - Why planes aren’t getting any faster—and won’t any time soon.

10 Proposed Airliners of the Future (San Francisco Bay Area Today)

10 Proposed Airliners of the Future.

Richard Branson: ‘Millions of people would love to become astronauts' (The Guardian)

Richard Branson: ‘Millions of people would love to become astronauts'.

Virgin's supersonic plane could cross the Atlantic in 200 minutes (Wired)

Virgin's supersonic plane could cross the Atlantic in 200 minutes.

Fantastic Flight: The Orion III Spaceplane from "2001: A Space Odyssey" (space.com)

Fantastic Flight: The Orion III Spaceplane from "2001: A Space Odyssey"

Blue Origin aims to take passengers on suborbital space flights in 2018 (CBC)

Blue Origin aims to take passengers on suborbital space flights in 2018.