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No single scientist or engineer, no matter how smart, could solve the challenges of controlled, maneuverable flight of an aircraft or returning spacecraft traveling at more than five times the speed of sound.

The U.S. Department of Defense is leading a new charge, pouring more than $1 billion annually into hypersonic research.

The College of Engineering and Applied Science has launched three new interdisciplinary research themes as part of a broad push into growing and critical areas of study.

The U.S. believes it has made a breakthrough toward closing the gap in hypersonic missile technology it perceives between itself and China and Russia.

Russia and China have touted their progress in developing hypersonic vehicles, which fly much faster than the speed of sound.

Boyd's work focuses on the physics problems of hypersonic flight. Vehicles that would travel at such high speeds build up incredible amounts of heat due to friction with the surrounding air. T