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 ...

Breaking the Sound Barrier is another expression of her vision and courage.” —Cornel West, prolific author and academic “By bringing us the perspectives of those too often denied access to ...

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 ...