Two weeks ago, that single-seat, three-engine aircraft became the first independently developed plane to break Mach 1 in ... "We broke the sound barrier not once, not twice, but actually three ...

Boom Supersonic plans to break the sound barrier during a test flight this morning (Jan. 28). This would mark the first time the company achieves the feat, and you can watch the historic action live.

Supersonic flight means breaking the sound barrier, but there are some myths as to what pilots actually feel at Mach 1.

A civilian jet broke the sound barrier for the first time Tuesday while making a historic test flight over the Mojave Desert. The XB-1 aircraft, manufactured by Boom Supersonic, was piloted by ...

The remarkable flying career of Charles ‘Chuck’ Yeager - the first pilot to break the sound barrier and fly at supersonic ...

Despite traveling at a top speed of Mach 1.12, no associated boom was picked up. “XB-1 broke the sound barrier three times during its first supersonic flight – without an audible boom ...

allowing the public to see an aircraft break the sound barrier. The image captured by NASA shows the silhouette of Boom's demonstrator streaking across the sky, except the atmosphere is rendered ...

NASA has snapped a stunning image of a supersonic plane breaking the sound barrier – as its creators boast that there was “no audible sonic boom”. The Boom Supersonic XB-1 – dubbed a ...

it is then said to have broken the sound barrier. The first person to break the sound barrier was U.S. Air Force Captain Chuck Yeager. Not long after Yeager became the first person to break the ...

NOVA: Was the quest to break the sound barrier initially motivated by possible military applications? HALLION: Absolutely not. In fact, in the early 1930s the initial thought on this was that this ...

He helped design the X-1, which was the first airplane to break the sound barrier. Slick Goodlin was a test pilot for Bell Laboratories and made numerous flights in the X-1 before it was ...