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

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

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 ...

Boom Supersonic and NASA published a special photo taken during the flight of the XB-1 jet aircraft, which demonstrates the moment of breaking the sound barrier ... of flight from coast to coast 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 ...

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 ...