Last week’s flight took place at Mojave Air and Space Port (KMHV) in California—where the Bell X-1 broke the sound barrier ...
The latest test flight was piloted by Tristan “Geppetto” Brandenburg, a graduate of the United States Naval Test Pilot School. Along with breaking the plane’s speed record, his flight also reached new ...
"A sonic boom is not because it is breaking the sound barrier, anytime the rocket is going faster than the speed of sound it ...
Boom Supersonic's XB-1 hits a new speed milestone of 629 mph, bringing it closer to breaking the sound barrier—setting the ...
During the Nov. 5 test flight, which lasted 55 minutes, XB-1 reached an altitude of 23,015 feet (7,015 meters) and a new top ...
A Cambridgeshire woman has described how work to build a barrier quietening traffic noise for those living ... many people ...
RAF jets broke the sound barrier as they raced to intercept a London-bound passenger plane at the centre of a security alert. Fighters from RAF Coningsby in Lincolnshire were sent to the Air India ...
The jet nicknamed the 'Son of Concorde' has just hit a new top speed in its latest test flight.
Action News Jax's Jake Stofan breaks the sound barrier with the Blue Angels Kamala Harris' birthday is shattering stereotypes — and making Trump seem even older The most popular book of each ...
Written with all of the fierce intelligence and passion for truth that millions have come to expect from Amy Goodman’s reportage, Breaking the Sound Barrier is, in Arianna Huffington’s words ...
And I had Lieutenant Connor O’Donnell to thank for getting me back on the ground safe and sound. O’Donnell has been flying for the Navy for 10 years and is a Naval Academy graduate.
Yeager climbed into a Bell X-1 rocket plane and became the first human being to break the sound barrier in level flight. And he did it with two broken ribs. Charles E. (Chuck) Yeager (1923-2020 ...