With technological advances such as more powerful engines and improved airframe and wing design, the sound barrier was broken in 1947. Once an airplane crosses the sound barrier, the flight is smooth.

NOVA: The obstacles to breaking the sound barrier were the aircraft design ... was the aerodynamic challenge—what actually happens to an airplane as it approaches closer and closer and hopefully ...

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 ...

Boom Supersonic has completed a test flight of a civil aircraft, breaking the sound barrier three times ... company has ...

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. To capture the iconic moment, the ...

You can watch the detailed breakdown of what happened to the project below: Evanston residents calling for answers after sound barrier plans scraped Fuller said the cancellation comes down to two ...

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 ...