On August 9, 1950, Alexander John "Al" Lilly became the first Canadian to break the sound barrier, piloting a Canadair F-86 ...

The English Electric Lightning was a 1950s jet capable of Mach 2 speeds and which served for almost exactly 30 years in the ...

Will passengers ever break the sound barrier again? - Exclusive: Zoom may make life difficult for Boom, the most serious ...

Boom Supersonic's XB-1 demonstrator craft will break the sound barrier for the first time during a Jan. 28 test flight, and you can watch the action live.

Boom Supersonic’ s XB-1 aircraft climbed over 35,000ft on Tuesday before accelerating to Mach 1.1 speed and then breaking the sound barrier in three high-speed runs spanning 35 minutes over the ...

Tuesday was a historic day in commercial air travel and a promising one for those eager to embark on supersonic travel. Boom Supersonic's XB-1 broke the sound barrier during a test flight at ...

MOJAVE, Calif. (WGHP) — Only a few more tests remain until Boom Supersonic’s XB-1 aircraft tries in earnest to break the sound barrier. The XB-1 aircraft, described by Boom as “the worl… ...

In 2003, British Airways and Air France retired Concorde—history’s only successful supersonic airliner. More than two decades later, a civil aircraft has broken the sound barrier once again.

Tuesday’s flight happened in the same airspace where in 1947 Charles “Chuck” Yeager became the first person to break the sound barrier, piloting an orange, bullet-shaped Bell X-1 rocket plane.

On Oct. 14, 1947, Yeager, then a 24-year-old captain, pushed an orange, bullet-shaped Bell X-1 rocket plane past 660 mph to break the sound barrier, at the time a daunting aviation milestone.

Israeli jets flew low over the city of Saida in southern Lebanon on Sunday causing sonic booms that broke windows and shook buildings for the first time in years, security sources and residents said.