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

An F/A-18C Hornet assigned to Strike Fighter Squadron 113 breaks the sound barrier alongside the Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS Carl Vinson during an air power demonstration. US Air Force ...

A little over a month after a civilian jet broke the sound barrier, Boom Supersonic and NASA have released a photo of one of ...

Hallion is The Air Force Historian for the United States Air Force ... NOVA: Was the quest to break the sound barrier initially motivated by possible military applications? HALLION: Absolutely ...

He helped design the X-1, which was the first airplane to break the ... to the military for the sound barrier attempt. In 1947, Chuck Yeager was a Captain with the United States Air Force assigned ...

The first F-16 Block 70 fighter jet intended for the Bulgarian Air Force has arrived in the country, landing at the Graf Ignatievo airbase at 2:30 p.m. The aircraft, a combat training model with a ...

Fragile ceasefire has been in place in Lebanon since November despite numerous Israeli violations, ending months of cross-border warfare between Israel, Hezbollah - Anadolu Ajansı ...

At a speed of about 767 miles per hour, depending on temperature and humidity, a moving object will break the ... that occur as military aircraft punch through the sound barrier and travel faster ...