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 during an air power demonstration over the Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS Carl Vinson. An F/A-18F Super Hornet ...

The result is a neat visualization of the jet breaking the sound barrier. “This image makes the invisible visible – the first ...

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 ...

NOVA spoke with him on the eve of the 50th anniversary of the breaking of the sound barrier ... The Mig 19 is the first Soviet supersonic jet fighter. It appears contemporaneously with the ...

From the Foreword by Bill Moyers, host, Bill Moyers Journal “Amy Goodman is a towering progressive freedom-fighter in the media and the world. Breaking the Sound Barrier is another expression of ...

It was not until World War II, when aircraft started to reach the limits of the sound barrier - although without successfully breaking the barrier into supersonic speed - that the term came into use.