Boom Supersonic made history today (Jan. 28) when its XB-1 jet broke the sound barrier for the first time ... a Dassault ...

The Messerschmitt Me 262 Schwable was the world's first operational jet aircraft and was powered by an engine designed by ...

It’s been two decades since a passenger jet broke the sound barrier — until now ... locks in future of Michigan air base with new fighter jet announcement Ranking All-You-Can-Eat Chain ...

Swept back wings are a common design among all aircraft these days, but for fighter jets in particular, wings trending to the ...

The last civil supersonic jet was the Concorde ... It was shadowed by two former fighter jets that Boom uses to monitor the XB-1 during the test flights. Scholl said the next step is to scale ...

The system would work by forcing water up into the air through microjets at the deck’s surface, or by forcing the water down ...

To “break the sound barrier” means to fly faster than the ... When people say you can see a fighter jet before you hear it, they’re referring to supersonic flight: fighter jets can travel ...

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 ...

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 ...

Chuck Yeager, the first person to break the sound barrier and one of the U.S. Air ... sky and set our nation’s dreams soaring into the jet age and the space age. He said, ‘You don’t ...

(U.S. Air Force) The next generation of fighter aircraft could bring greater ... All that changed after Chuck Yeager broke the sound barrier in 1947. This opened the door to a second generation ...