In a groundbreaking achievement, NASA’s X-59 supersonic jet has shattered the sound barrier without the disruptive sonic boom ...

American aerospace startup Boom made history on Tuesday by breaking the sound barrier during the test flight of its Boom Supersonic XB-1 demonstrator jet. The XB-1's flight, livestreamed from the ...

In 1947, Chuck Yeager flew the X-1, an experimental rocket plane, over Rogers Dry Lake in Southern California and broke the sound barrier for the first time. To pull it off, he had to fly his plane at ...

You might already know that in 1947, U.S. test pilot Chuck Yeager was the first person to break the sound barrier in a Bell X-1 named the Glamorous Glennis. But aircraft aren't the only things that ...

The thing about the sound barrier in the 1940s was that everyone in aviation knew that it was theoretically possible to travel faster than sound. High-powered bullets did it all the time. But whether ...

On its 12th test flight, the Boom XB-1 prototype broke the sound barrier three times and achieved a top speed of Mach 1.1. On its 12th test flight, the Boom XB-1 prototype broke the sound barrier ...

A Korean Airlines jet plane approaches Los Angeles International Airport as low clouds gather over the Pacific ahead of forecasted rain in Los Angeles, Sunday, Feb ...

The aviation world is mourning the death of Chuck Yeager, a decorated U.S. Air Force test pilot who became the first person to fly faster than the speed of sound in 1947. Yeager, 97, was remembered ...

Stephen has degrees in science (Physics major) and arts (English Literature and the History and Philosophy of Science), as well as a Graduate Diploma in Science Communication. Stephen has degrees in ...

A collaboration between NASA and Lockheed Martin has produced an experimental jet capable of flying beyond the speed of sound ...