As global air traffic continues to grow, the aviation industry faces mounting pressure to reduce aircraft noise ...
During the demonstration flight on January 28, 2025, the XB-1 broke the sound barrier three times, but not one of those ...
The location was symbolic, as it was the same California airspace where Chuck Yeager broke the sound barrier for the first time in 1947 in the Bell X-1, a rocket engine–powered aircraft that was ...