On February 10, in the skies above the Mojave Desert, the Boom Supersonic XB-1 test jet roared past Mach 1, tearing through ...

First, we had the appearance of the jet ... NOVA: The obstacles to breaking the sound barrier were the aircraft design itself and the building of a propulsion capable of pushing a plane that ...

Yuri Gagarin was the first man to ever step foot in space in 1961 but what happened six years later to cause his death at the tender age of 34 still haunts his family ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

This amazing image shows the moment Boom Supersonic's XB-1 aircraft broke the sound barrier during its second supersonic ...

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 ... visible — the first U.S. civilian supersonic jet ...

Free-fall through the sound barrier. In a computer animation ... Arms back, tilted forward, head down. Narrator:But first, he'll have to break through what's known as the transonic wall.