On February 10, in the skies above the Mojave Desert, the Boom Supersonic XB-1 test jet roared past Mach 1, tearing through ...

It’s been two decades since a passenger jet broke the sound barrier — until now. The Boom XB-1 just went supersonic, marking ...

He helped design the X-1, which was the first airplane to break the sound barrier. Slick Goodlin was a test pilot for Bell Laboratories and made numerous flights in the X-1 before it was ...

NOVA: The obstacles to breaking the sound barrier were the aircraft design itself and the building of a propulsion capable of pushing a plane that fast. Would you say that those were equal challenges?

Flying at 20,000 feet above ground, Karina Miranda became the first Chilean woman pilot to break the sound barrier since it ... looks at the speedometer on the plane and you say, ‘Wow, I ...

Written with all of the fierce intelligence and passion for truth that millions have come to expect from Amy Goodman’s reportage, Breaking the Sound Barrier is, in Arianna Huffington’s words ...

The Bulgarian government streamed the plane’s landing live on the official Facebook page of the Council of Ministers. Defense Minister Atanas Zapryanov had previously stated that preparations ...

But just days before his record-breaking flight ... The X-1 raced toward the sound barrier as Yeager tested the plane's stabilizer. "The rudder and elevator lost their grip on the thinning ...

The sound was caused by a French military plane breaking the sound barrier, creating a noise known as a sonic boom. A sonic boom is the noise linked to shock waves created when an object travels ...

There are several companies trying to revive the days of the Concorde with various new supersonic airplane designs ... hope to come close to the breaking the sound barrier. Understandable ...